Crossword clues for rustle
rustle
- Stir noisily
- Sound of windblown leaves
- Sound of leaves
- Silky sound
- Engage in an Old West no-no
- Whispering or rubbing sound
- Whip (up), as grub
- Swish — lustre (anag)
- Steal, Western-style
- Steal, as steer
- Steal, as cattle (6)
- Steal uncooked burger meat?
- Sound of sheets
- Sound of leaves blowing in the wind
- Sound of curtains
- Sound like leaves in the wind
- Soft crackle
- Purloin future sirloin?
- Poach, out West
- Move like autumn leaves in the wind
- Leaves sound
- Heist a hereford
- Grab someone else's head?
- Flutter softly
- Bum steer?
- End-of-meal serving
- Steal cattle
- Purloin a sirloin?
- Gather, with "up"
- Cook (up)
- В В End-of-meal serving
- Steal some steers
- What leaves do in the wind
- Take stock?
- The light noise like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind
- Sound of a willow in the wind
- Steal on the range
- Make susurrous sounds
- Susurrus
- Steal the steer
- Swish - lustre
- Steal (cattle)
- Plan no longer includes current use
- Philosopher speaking in a crackly whisper
- Dry crackling sound
- Soft sound
- Steal livestock
- Steal, as cattle
- Steal steers
- Prepare quickly, with "up"
- Gather (up)
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rustle \Rus"tle\, n. A quick succession or confusion of small sounds, like those made by shaking leaves or straw, by rubbing silk, or the like; a rustling.
When the noise of a torrent, the rustle of a wood, the
song of birds, or the play of lambs, had power to fill
the attention, and suspend all perception of the course
of time.
--Idler.
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.]
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To make a quick succession of small sounds, like the rubbing or moving of silk cloth or dry leaves.
He is coming; I hear his straw rustle.
--Shak.Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk.
--Shak. To stir about energetically; to strive to succeed; to bustle about. [Slang, Western U.S.]
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To steal; -- used of livestock and esp. of cattle.
To rustle up To gather or find by searching; as, to rustle up some food for supper.
Rustle \Rus"tle\, v. t. To cause to rustle; as, the wind rustles the leaves.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to emit soft, rapid sounds," late 14c. (implied in rustling), of uncertain origin, perhaps imitative (compare Middle Low German ruschen, Middle Dutch ruusscen, German rauschen "to rustle"). Related: Rustled; rustling. Meaning "steal" (especially cattle) first attested 1882, probably from earlier American English slang sense of "move about vigorously" (1844), perhaps a separate word, compounded from rush and hustle.
1759, from rustle (v.).
Wiktionary
n. A soft crackle sound similar to the movement of leaves. vb. 1 (context ergative English) To move (something) with a soft crackling sound. 2 (context transitive English) To make or obtain in a lively, energetic way. 3 (context transitive English) To steal (cattle or other livestock).
WordNet
n. the light noise like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind [syn: rustling, whisper, whispering]
v. make a dry crackling sound; "rustling silk"; "the dry leaves were rustling in the breeze"
take illegally; "rustle cattle" [syn: lift]
Wikipedia
Rustle may refer to:
- Cattle rustling
- Rustle noise (music)
- Frühlingsrauschen or Rustle of Spring, a solo piano piece by the Norwegian composer Christian Sinding (1856–1941)
Usage examples of "rustle".
She imagined the smell of the rain forest and the chatter of monkeys, the rustle of agoutis, the slither of anacondas, the screech of macaws.
Only the rustle of creatures alongshore and the noise of crickets or an occasional frog could be heard.
Thence snowy Altels and the giant Blumlisalp flashed it south along the crowding peaks and down among the Italian chestnut woods, who next sent it coursing over the rustling waves of the Adriatic and mixed it everywhere with the Mediterranean foam.
Besides the rustling of the gas cells there was the creaking of the aluminium framework along which he walked and the musical cries of thousands of steel bracing wires.
It was very hot, but the afternoon airs were strong enough to lift the British ensign out of its heavy folds and to rustle the graceful fronds of the areca palms.
Utter silence followed this pronouncement, such that even far across the cathedral square, the rustle of parchment could be heard as the papal chaplain rolled up his scroll, turning away to converse quietly with two waiting prelates as a belated murmur of conversation rippled through the crowd.
Bill Bly was the hero of the rodeo world and Deke Murphy was an unknown, a hard-faced youngster who had dropped off a freight train and rustled a job handling stock for the rodeo.
At the end of about an hour he heard a rustling, peeped out quickly, and caught sight of Boule de Suif, looking more rotund than ever in a dressing-gown of blue cashmere trimmed with white lace.
I stood there a long time, one foot upon the coping and my chin upon my hand, noting the beauty of the ruined town and wondering how such a feeble race as that which lay about, breakfasting in the limpid sunshine, could have come by a city like this, or kept even the ruins of its walls and buildings from the covetousness of others, until presently there was a rustle of primrose garments and my friend of the day before stood by me.
The undergrowth buzzed with insects, and with slight crinkling and rustling noises.
A horrifying shriek and the rustle of something moving quickly out of the jungle stopped Byrt short.
The faint and frail Cathedral chimes Spake time in music, and we heard The chafers rustling in the limes.
Jenna heard the call of the ancient oaks, the green life in the most ancient and lost hollows of Thall Coill, a compelling whisper that rustled the leaves above them, that caused the oaks to bend down with many-limbed branches, that hushed the call of the mage-lights nearly invisible under the canopy of the forest.
The cooing, rustling, struggling load dragged beside him, snagging on the old flooring- He could feel heat on his bare legs.
His belly scraped the floor as he wriggled along with his cooing, rustling load- His eyes were running tears, and even if there had been light he would have been blind.