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Answer for the clue "Game to defraud, pocketing pounds in crooked stocktaking ", 8 letters:
rustling

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Word definitions for rustling in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rustle \Rus"tle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rustled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Rustling .] [AS. hristlan to rustle; or cf. Sw. rusta to stir, make a riot, or E. rush, v.] To make a quick succession of small sounds, like the rubbing or moving of silk cloth or dry leaves. ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A series of rustles. vb. (present participle of rustle English)

Usage examples of rustling.

At first, an eerie rustling noise seemed to come from all directions at once.

It described the rustling death as Ham had seen it and as he and Ham had discussed it.

Weatherton was the friend and backer of Jan Vanderlee, the inventor of the thing the newspapers were calling the rustling death.

Neither of them had heard of the brain-numbing effects that came with the rustling death.

Renny were still a bit foggy from their encounter with the rustling death.

COMPLETE silence followed this newest visitation of the rustling death.

And you may tell the world, for Krag, that the rustling death awaits anyone who fails to do my bidding.

The voice that came over the wire was not the muffled sneer of Krag, but the voice of King Cortlandt, the representative who had accused Weatherton of being involved in the rustling death.

He said that he merely transmitted the orders to the operator of the rustling death, whose face he had never seen.

He gave every indication of being much more afraid of the rustling death than he was at the thought of strangulation.

The rustling death was generated in a huge cabinet that took four men to move, he told them.

Fox said that since Krag first used the rustling death, he had developed it far beyond its original power.

Doc any of the details of their encounter with the rustling death or their capture.

The same power that had caused the spark and the weird rustling sound had apparently locked it.

The mighty brain of the bronze man was battling to resist the numbing force of the rustling death.