Etymology From Middle English ostelment, borrowed from Old French ostillement, ultimately from Vulgar Latin *usitilium, from neuter plural *usitilia, from Latin utensilia (“utensils”).
Theye haue allso abundaunce of bed coueryngs in their houses, and of all other wollen stuffe. They haue greate store of all hustlements and implements of houshold.1567, John Fortescue, chapter 36, in Robert Mulcaster, transl., A Learned Commendation of the Politique Lawes of Englande, London: Richard Tottel:
the minute Bodies and smallest sort of Creatures about us, which have been by them [the ancients] but sleightly and perfunctorily described, as being the disregarded pieces and huslement of the Creation1664, Henry Power, Experimental Philosophy, London: John Martin and James Allestry, Preface:
[…] in the hustlement of getting off the train nobody remember Henry and a guard had was to wake him up.1956, Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners, Toronto: TSAR, published 1991, page 16:
1966, Errol Hill, Strictly Matrimony, Scene 1, in Woodie King and Ron Milner (eds.), Black Drama Anthology, New York: Columbia University Press, 1972, p. 555, I like Sunday breakfast. No hustlement. And I like how you does prepare my meal good.