Crossword clues for rustling
rustling
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.]
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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.
Wiktionary
n. A series of rustles. vb. (present participle of rustle English)
WordNet
adj. characterized by soft sounds; "a murmurous brook"; "a soughing wind in the pines"; "a slow sad susurrous rustle like the wind fingering the pines"- R.P.Warren [syn: murmurous, soughing, susurrous]
n. the stealing of cattle
the light noise like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind [syn: rustle, whisper, whispering]
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.