Word Direct Answers

What does "rustle" mean?

Rustle: To stir about energetically; to strive to succeed; to bustle about. [Slang, Western U.S.]

Additional senses

  1. 2.To cause to rustle; as, the wind rustles the leaves.
  2. 3.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. Idler.

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