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rustler|ˈrʌslə(r)|
[f. rustle v. + -er1.]
1. One who or that which rustles; a rustling leaf, bird, etc.
1820Scott Monast. viii, The fairy hopes of my youth I have trodden under foot like those neglected rustlers [leaves]. 1838Fraser's Mag. XVIII. 559 Not a rustler in the thicket moved, But he could name it.
2. a. An energetic or bustling man. U.S.
1872R. B. Johnson Very Far West xiv. 191 There is the middle-class rustler, who starts a store..upon credit. 1885Milnor (Dakota) Teller 24 Apr. 2/6 One of the Lisbon rustlers lately sold one of his farms..for $18 an acre. 1887M. Roberts Western Avernus 183 He does not know much about saw-mills, but I just tell you he is a rustler.
b. A cattle-thief; also in extended and transf. uses. orig. U.S.
1882Blackw. Mag. Mar. 273 A gang of ‘rustlers’—as the lawless desperadoes who abound in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas are called. 1885Harper's Mag. May 826/1 We could hear the stealthy tread of rustlers and Indians and murderous Mexicans. 1908J. M. Sullivan Criminal Slang 20 Rustler, a horse thief. 1964Wall St. Jrnl 9 Jan. 1/4 He covered the orange rustlers with a double-barreled shotgun. 1971Daily Tel. 19 Apr. 2/1 East Anglian farmers were warned to beware of pig rustlers after 15 sows and five pigs..were stolen. 1977Oxford Times 16 Sept. 5/5 Police trying to round up horse rustlers in Oxfordshire have admitted the efforts often prove futile. |