rustle

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

RUSTLE, verb intransitive rus'l. To make a quick succession of small sounds, like the rubbing of silk cloth or dry leaves; as a rustling silk; rustling leaves or trees; rustling wings. He is coming; I hear the straw rustle
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