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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

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

Sounds like: ruse, ruesrustle

Derived forms: rustling, rustled, rustles

Type of: forage, go, noise, rip [N. Amer, informal], rip off [informal], scrounge, sound, steal

Encyclopedia: Rustle