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1. The stealing of cattle
    
2. A light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind
   - rustle, whisper, whispering, susurration [literary], susurrus [literary]

1. Characterized by soft sounds
   "a rustling brook";
   - murmurous, soughing, susurrous

1. Make a dry crackling sound
   "rustling silk"; "the dry leaves were rustling in the breeze"
    
2. Take illegally
   "rustle cattle";
   - lift [informal]
    
3. Make food, esp. quickly or with limited ingredients
   - rustle up
    
4. Forage food

Derived forms: rustlings

See also: soft

Type of: forage, go, larceny, noise, rip [N. Amer, informal], rip off [informal], scrounge, sound, steal, stealing, theft, thievery, thieving

Encyclopedia: Rustling