rustling

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).

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[Middle English rustlen, perhaps of imitative origin.]

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rustler n.

rustling·ly adv.

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rustling

• soughing - A soft rustling or murmuring sound—like the deep sigh of a sleeping baby.
• frou-frou - From French for "a rustling."
• murmur - Comes from the Latin word for "rustling," and can mean "complain, grumble about."
• psithurism - The sound of wind in the trees and rustling of leaves.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	rustling - 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 rustle, whispering, whisper 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 murmurous, soughing, susurrous 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, paper → raschelnd; skirt → rauschend n

n

(of leaves, paper) → Rascheln nt; (of material) → Rauschen nt

(= cattle theft) → Viehdiebstahl m

rustling¹ [ˈrʌslɪŋ] n (noise) → fruscio

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rustling² [ˈrʌslɪŋ] n (of cattle) → furto di bestiame