RUSTLE • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Rustle

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/rˈəsəl/ Listen

Rustle

noun

A light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind. Synonyms: rustling, whisper, whispering.

verb

(past & past part. rustled; pres. part. rustling)

Make a dry crackling sound. "The dry leaves were rustling in the breeze"

Take illegally. Synonym: lift.

Forage food.

See more definitions of Rustle...

See images of 'Rustle'

Etymology of 'Rustle'

Related search:

rustler

Share |

"Rustle" Quotes from Famous Books

... boast! They had scarcely seated themselves to work again, the lieutenant puffing vigorously, before they heard footsteps in the corridor, with a rustle of silks, and a hand tapped ...

— Lady Good-for-Nothing • A. T. Quiller-Couch

... further side of the barn. Her succumbing had been as largely owning to agitation at the re-opening the subject of her separation from her husband as to the hard work. She lay in a state of percipience without volition, and the rustle of the straw and the cutting of the ears by the others had the weight of ...

— Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman • Thomas Hardy

... still it moved and twisted; I gripped still harder; yet the thing would move till I could feel it, yes, feel it, tearing the palm out of my hand, then I dropped it, and there it lay, a curling, shiny snake! I could hear the paper shavings rustle as the horrible thing writhed before me! If it had been a snake I should not have minded it. I was never afraid of a snake. I should have called some one to look at it, I could have killed it, I should not have been terrified at a thing; but I knew it was a cold dead bar of iron, and ...

— Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6) - Orators and Reformers • Various

... captive for a week. Look in upon him any time, night or day, and he was apparently wrapped in the profoundest slumber; but the live mice which I put into his box from time to time found his sleep was easily broken; there would be a sudden rustle in the box, a faint squeak, and then silence. After a week of captivity I gave him his freedom in the full sunshine: no trouble for him to see which ...

— Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and, Other Papers • John Burroughs

... do creak and rustle and move about in a very odd way. Oswald was not afraid, but he did think we might as well have slept in the kitchen, because the gentleman could not have wanted to use that when he was asleep. You see, we thought then that he would sleep all ...

— New Treasure Seekers - or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune • E. (Edith) Nesbit

More quotes...