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rustler

[ UK /ɹˈʌslɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈɹəsɫɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone who steals livestock (especially cattle)

How To Use rustler In A Sentence

  • What he was thinking was that the moon was in the quarter—what they called the rustler’s moon. The Lonesome Dove Series
  • Budd Hankinson and Grizzly Weber, the two hired men, were absent, looking after the cattle, for the rustler is a night hawk who often gets in the best part of his work between the set and rise of sun. Cowmen and Rustlers A Story of the Wyoming Cattle Ranges
  • Potato rustlers have been at their crop, although the farmers suspect the island's affluent residents are helping themselves rather than an organised raid orchestrated by gourmet gangstas.
  • “Ain’t Jack Slade an’ his bunch,” he mumbled as he mounted, “but by God a rustler is a rustler.” 365 tomorrows » 2008 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
  • These roadless hills have always been a refuge for rogues and reivers, a lawless area in times past where cattle-rustlers would hide their stolen beasts in secret clefts and hollows.
  • What he was thinking was that the moon was in the quarter — what they called the rustler's moon. Lonesome Dove
  • A tale of the western frontier, where the "rustler" abounds. Free Air
  • It used to be a standard ploy — not just “liberal,” but “Whig” (originally “cut-throat cattle rustler from the wild Scottish borders”) and “Tory” (orig. “illiterate Papist peasant from the remotest bogs of Ireland”). Own It!
  • When the rustlers spin round and glare at you, levelling their pistols in your direction, whistle nonchalantly.
  • You've been risking your life and that pretty pink English skin of yours for one of the most worthless men in British Columbia; he's been a cattle rustler, a 'salter' of gold mines, and everything that is discreditable; it makes me indignant. The Shagganappi
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