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rustling

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rus·tle  (rsl)
v. rus·tled, rus·tling, rus·tles
v.intr.
1. To move with soft fluttering or crackling sounds.
2. To move or act energetically or with speed.
3. To forage food.
4. To steal livestock, especially cattle.
v.tr.
1. To cause to rustle.
2. To obtain by rustling: rustled up some food in the kitchen.
3. To steal (livestock, especially cattle).

[Middle English rustlen, perhaps of imitative origin.]

rustler n.
rustling·ly adv.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.rustlingrustling - the stealing of cattle              
larceny, stealing, theft, thievery, thieving - the act of taking something from someone unlawfully; "the thieving is awful at Kennedy International"
2.rustling - a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind
noise - sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound); "he enjoyed the street noises"; "they heard indistinct noises of people talking"; "during the firework display that ended the gala the noise reached 98 decibels"
Adj.1.rustling - 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
soft - (of sound) relatively low in volume; "soft voices"; "soft music"
Translations
rustling2 [ˈrʌslɪŋ] N (US) (also cattle rustling) → robo m de ganado, abigeato m (Mex)
rustling [ˈrʌslɪŋ] n
(mainly US) [cattle] → vol m de bétail
(= sound) [paper] → froissement m; [leaves] → bruissement m; [silk] → frou-frou m
rustling
adj noise, leaves, paperraschelnd; skirtrauschend n
n
(of leaves, paper)Rascheln nt; (of material)Rauschen nt
(= cattle theft)Viehdiebstahl m
rustling1 [ˈrʌslɪŋ] n (noise) → fruscio
rustling1 [ˈrʌslɪŋ] n (noise) → fruscio
rustling2 [ˈrʌslɪŋ] n (of cattle) → furto di bestiame
rustling2 [ˈrʌslɪŋ] n (of cattle) → furto di bestiame


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From then until possibly midnight all was silence, the silence of the dead; then, suddenly, the awful moan of the morning broke upon my startled ears, and there came again from the black shadows the sound of a moving thing, and a faint rustling as of dead leaves.
When they tried to locate it, it mysteriously ceased, and when the first hint of drowsiness stole upon them the rustling as mysteriously recommenced.
Evening came, and with it troops of Elves to counsel their good Queen, who, seated on her mossy throne, looked anxiously upon the throng below, whose glittering wings and rustling robes gleamed like many-colored flowers.
 
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