rustle
part of speech
verb (rustle, rustles, rustled, rustling); noun (a rustle)
meaning for a pupil
1) To rustle is to make a soft, light, crackling sound like dry leaves or paper moving. tree →
2) A rustle is that sound. tree →
3) «Rustle up» means to make or find something quickly, like a quick snack. tree →
4) To rustle cattle is to steal them (in old Western stories). tree →
sense in the lessons
In stories and poems a rustle in the bushes builds suspense — something might be hiding. In science lessons it is a sound word, like whisper or crunch. Phrases: «rustle of leaves», «rustle up a meal», «cattle rustler».
examples
- The leaves rustled in the wind. tree →
- We heard a rustle in the bushes and froze. tree →
- Please don't rustle your crisp packet during the film. tree →
- Mum rustled up some sandwiches for us. tree →
- The paper rustled as she turned the page. tree →
- In the cowboy story, thieves rustled the cattle at night. tree →
- Not a rustle or a sound could be heard. tree →
note
The «t» is silent: RUSS-ul. Past: «rustled». It is an onomatopoeic word — it sounds like the noise it names. A «rustler» is a cattle thief.
In the corpora
- At the cinema you eat quietly and do not rustle wrappers.
- At the cinema, eat quietly and do not rustle wrappers, because noise spoils the film for others.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «rustle» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.