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/rˈəslər/ Listen

noun

Rustler n.

One who, or that which, rustles.

A bovine animal that can care for itself in any circumstances; also, an alert, energetic, driving person. (Slang, Western U.S.)

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Etymology of 'Rustler'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rustler" Quotes from Famous Books

... one of our rising scientists, a boss of the Smithsonian Institute. Well, Washington is a finer location than Oxford! Dr. Rustler is a crank; he thinks he can find a tall talk mummy that ...

— The Disentanglers • Andrew Lang

... approach. He was a tall, raw boned man with a shock of reddish grey hair and tangled beard; a pair of keen grey eyes shown from behind deep, overhanging brows. Though he had the appearance of a farmer, he might have been anything from a deacon to a rustler, so far as could be judged by his appearance. The craft he was piloting down was loaded with a miscellaneous collection of household effects and a couple of sad eyed hounds were the man's ...

— The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World • Paul Boyton

... stockade," Harris explained to Deane. "Arnold was an old-time rustler that finished at the end of a rope fifteen years ago. Now all the drifters in the country stop over here if they want a ...

— The Settling of the Sage • Hal G. Evarts

... hand, knowing that, in everything which concerned the working of men and machinery to the limit, Tom would begin at the point where their less elastic consciences might leave off. The syndicate, therefore, remained in Victoria, or Vancouver, or San Francisco, and said of Tom that he was a rustler from "Way back, and as lively ...

— Bunch Grass - A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch • Horace Annesley Vachell