Meaning & use
rustled
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Made a soft, crackling sound, as of dry leaves or paper moving.
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The leaves rustled gently as the wind swept through the trees.
In the 1800s, gangs of outlaws rustled cattle from ranches across the plains.
A note on using this word
In American frontier slang, rustled specifically referred to stealing cattle or horses, a sense still used in Westerns.
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Another way to use it
2. verb
Stole livestock, typically cattle or horses.
The sheriff formed a posse after learning that rustlers had rustled fifty head of cattle overnight.
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