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/rˈəslər/ Listen

noun

Rustler n.

One who, or that which, rustles.

A bovine animal that can care for itself in any circumstances; also, an alert, energetic, driving person. (Slang, Western U.S.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rustler" Quotes from Famous Books

... stockade," Harris explained to Deane. "Arnold was an old-time rustler that finished at the end of a rope fifteen years ago. Now all the drifters in the country stop over here if they want a ...

— The Settling of the Sage • Hal G. Evarts

... accessible of men. The humblest wharf-rustler in Australia hails him by his first name. A characteristic incident will show the comradeship that exists between this ...

— The War After the War • Isaac Frederick Marcosson

... the western frontier, where the "rustler," whose depredations are so keenly resented by the early settlers of the range, abounds. One of the sweetest ...

— The Turtles of Tasman • Jack London

... approach. He was a tall, raw boned man with a shock of reddish grey hair and tangled beard; a pair of keen grey eyes shown from behind deep, overhanging brows. Though he had the appearance of a farmer, he might have been anything from a deacon to a rustler, so far as could be judged by his appearance. The craft he was piloting down was loaded with a miscellaneous collection of household effects and a couple of sad eyed hounds were the man's ...

— The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World • Paul Boyton

... Lewis and the original stakers hold an interest in their claims. I, acting as agent for these other fellows in the company, staked five more. I took in eight more men—and, believe me, things were humming when I left. Lewis is a great rustler. He had out lots of timber, and we put in a wing dam three hundred feet long, so she can flood and be darned; they'll keep the sluice working just the same. And that quartz lead will justify a fifty-thousand-dollar mill. So I'm told by an expert I took in to look it over. And, say, I went ...

— North of Fifty-Three • Bertrand W. Sinclair