Dictionary

rustler en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio

Etymology

From rustle + -er.

Meanings

1. One who rustles; a cattle (or other livestock) thief.
   • Two years have now passed since Hayward’s farm in north Wales was raided, leading to the loss of tens of thousands of bees. But the rustlers have continued to be active. Most recently they have targeted the property of one of her Anglesey neighbours, where around 40,000 bees were taken last month. 2017 September 23, “From north Wales to Norfolk, distraught beekeepers ask: who’s stealing our hives?”, in The Observer:
2. A bovine animal that can care for itself in any circumstances.
3. (US, Western, dated, especially, slang) An alert, energetic, driving person.
4. That which makes a rustling noise.
   • Like this weekend, with moderate temperatures, the sky a bowl of blue, and the wind not a cold curse or a hot furnace, but a bit of a leaf-rustler, a cooling refreshment. 1987-1989, Thomas J. Murn, Outside View: nature columns from the Evansville Review:

Forms

Hypernyms

criminal · thief

Hyponyms

sheepstealer (livestock thief) · horse thief (livestock thief) · napper (livestock thief) · sheep rustler (livestock thief)

Synonyms

rustler · abactor · duffer · cattle rustler

Translations (14)

pl złodziej bydła (cattle thief) · vi ăn trộm bò (cattle thief) · ru уго́нщик скота́ (cattle thief) · nl veedief (cattle thief) · fi karjavaras (cattle thief) · grc ἀπελάτης (cattle thief) · de Viehdieb (cattle thief) · sv boskapstjuv (cattle thief) · ru конокра́д (cattle thief) · es cuatrero (cattle thief) · cs zloděj dobytka (cattle thief) · la abāctor (cattle thief) · de Viehdiebin (cattle thief) · es cuatrera (cattle thief)