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Rustle   /rˈəsəl/   Listen
noun
Rustle  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."


verb
Rustle  v. t.  To cause to rustle; as, the wind rustles the leaves.


Rustle  v. i.  (past & past part. rustled; pres. part. rustling)  
1.
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." "Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk."
2.
To stir about energetically; to strive to succeed; to bustle about. (Slang, Western U.S.)
3.
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.





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"Rustle" Quotes from Famous Books



... Hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us, And black are the waters that sparkled so green. The moon, o'er the combers, looks downward to find us At rest in the hollows that rustle between. ...
— How To Study and Teaching How To Study • F. M. McMurry
... cried. She flung the door wide open, and curiously enough a breeze came in and her own gray hair tossed, and a paper blew off the table to the floor with a loud rustle, but there was nobody ...
— The Wind in the Rose-bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural • Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
... arrested in their course to turn a saw-mill,—the party collected to return: with two others, I decided upon walking back, and pleasant it is to walk through these quiet wild wood-paths, where the chirp of the birds and the rustle of the leaves alone ...
— Impressions of America - During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Tyrone Power
... willing to do so. Mildred looked behind her, every few minutes, while she worked in the garden, to see whether Roger was not there, and at every rustle that the birds made among the trees on the Red-hill,—the eminence behind the house,—she fancied that some one was hidden there. Oliver let his tools and his alabaster lie hidden, much as he longed to be at work with them. ...
— The Settlers at Home • Harriet Martineau
... covered about an acre of ground, but they were tolerably think and full-leaved, and the buck could not be seen from any side. Wherever he was, he was evidently at a stand-still, for not a rustle could be heard among the leaves, nor were any of the tall stalks ...
— Popular Adventure Tales • Mayne Reid


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