rustle
/ˈɹʌsəl/ verb C1- To move (something) with a soft crackling sound.
- To make or obtain in a lively, energetic way.
- To steal (cattle or other livestock).
He/she/it rustles · Past rustled · Past participle rustled · -ing form rustling
Verb forms
- Base form
- rustle
- He/she/it
- rustles
- Past
- rustled
- Past participle
- rustled
- -ing form
- rustling
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Here Diana met her, and the two little girls went on up the lane under the leafy arch of maples--“maples are such sociable trees,” said Anne; “they’re always rustling and whispering to you”--until they came to a rustic bridge.
One of the huntsmen, attracted by the rustling of the leaves, looked back, and seeing the Hart, shot an arrow from his bow and struck it.
Her dress, which, in the east gable, had seemed so dainty and pretty, now seemed simple and plain--too simple and plain, she thought, among all the silks and laces that glistened and rustled around her.
The yard was quite dark as they turned into it and the poplar leaves were rustling silkily all round it.
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