rus·tle

(rŭs′əl)

v. rus·tled, rus·tling, rus·tles

v.intr.

1. To move with soft fluttering or crackling sounds: The leaves rustled in the breeze.

2. To move or act energetically or while making such sounds: Mice rustled across the floor.

3. To steal livestock, especially cattle.

v.tr.

1. To cause to rustle: rustled the newspaper.

2. To obtain or produce by energetic effort: rustled up some food in the kitchen.

3. To steal (livestock, especially cattle).

[Middle English rustlen, perhaps of imitative origin.]

rus′tler n.

rus′tling·ly adv.

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rustler

(ˈrʌslə)

1. chiefly US and Canadian a cattle or horse thief

2. informal US and Canadian an energetic or vigorous person

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Noun

rustler - someone who steals livestock (especially cattle)

cattle thief

stealer, thief - a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it

Translations

سارِق الماشِيَه

zloděj dobytka

kvægtyv

Viehdieb

marhatolvaj

nautgripaòjófur

hestetyv kvegtyv

zlodej dobytka

sığır hırsızı

偷牲畜的贼

rustler

[ˈrʌsləʳ] N → ladrón/ona m/f de ganado, abigeo/a m/f (Mex)

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rustler

[ˈrʌslə^r] n (mainly US) → voleur/euse m/f de bétail

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

rustler

n (= cattle thief) → Viehdieb(in) m(f)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

rustler

[ˈrʌsləʳ] n → ladro di bestiame

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rustle

(ˈrasl) verb

1. to (make something) make a soft, whispering sound. The wind rustled in the trees; She rustled her papers.

2. (American) to steal (cattle etc).

ˈrustler noun

(American) a person who steals cattle etc.

rustle up

to get or make quickly. He rustled up a meal.

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References in periodicals archive

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Even if the rustler gains access to the flock, we are told that Jesus' own sheep will never follow the voice of a stranger but run from it.

Faith Matters

-- Police in Southern California have busted a cattle costume rustler after he tried to sell the stolen suits online.

Man busted for selling rustled cow costumes

has published Rustler's Vengeance: From the authors of Code Name Rustler by Douglas E.

Espionage in a Twisted Web: Rustler's Vengeance Published by Outskirts Press

Produce World Rustler will be the first company in the UK to install Near Infra-Red (NIR) technology for detecting internal defects in onions.

Pioneering internal onion defect detection

At 44ft, it is the second biggest boat the prestigious Rustler Yachts firm of Falmouth have produced.

ANNE HITS THE SAILS; Princess splashes out pounds 500k to land swanky 44ft yacht

Now, almost 130 years later, Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico is thinking about granting the outlaw cattle rustler and murderer a pardon.

A pardon for Billy the Kid?

In July, 1979, the SCA/AFA Summer Conference on Argumentation convened at Rustler Lodge in Alta, Utah.

Editor's introduction

EPSOM: 1.50 Balloura, 2.20 Catspraddle, 2.55 Caesar Beware, 3.30 Maystock, 4.05 Del Mar Sunset, 4.40 Rustler, 5.15 Councellor.

Indian has the sign

The overlying Rustler Formation consists of approximately 50 percent halite with anhydrite, dolomite and clastics comprising the remainder of the formation.

Surficial manifestations of Permian salt bed dissolution near Loco Hills, New Mexico