a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind
<noun.event> [ adj ]
characterized by soft sounds
<adj.all> a murmurous brook a soughing wind in the pines a slow sad susurrous rustle like the wind fingering the pines
Rustle \Rus"tle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rustled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rustling}.] [AS. hristlan to rustle; or cf. Sw. rusta to stir, make a riot, or E. rush, v.] 1. To make a quick succession of small sounds, like the rubbing or moving of silk cloth or dry leaves.
He is coming; I hear his straw rustle. --Shak.
Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk. --Shak.
2. To stir about energetically; to strive to succeed; to bustle about. [Slang, Western U.S.]
3. To steal; -- used of livestock and esp. of cattle. [PJC]
{To rustle up} To gather or find by searching; as, to rustle up some food for supper. [PJC]
They hand parts around with regularity, and the most astounding thing about any performance is the beauty and precision of the choral work, sounding sometimes like the pounding surf, at other times like rustling reeds.
He said he spent 10 months in prison in 1962 for rustling.
"I heard some rustling in some papers and saw it move," Ms. Barnard said. "I decided I'd get out of there _ very slowly." Next door to the counselor's office is the school lunchroom, and officials led students outside.
Swayed by industry estimates that rustling skimmed a million pounds from last year's bumper harvest, the Maine Legislature in May rushed through an emergency bill, An Act to Discourage the Theft of Blueberries.