rustle

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To move with soft fluttering or crackling sounds.
• intransitive verb To move or act energetically or while making such sounds.
• intransitive verb To steal livestock, especially cattle.
• intransitive verb To cause to rustle.
• intransitive verb To obtain or produce by energetic effort.
• intransitive verb To steal (livestock, especially cattle).

from The Century Dictionary.

• To steal cattle, as a “rustler”; hence to steal, in general. See rustler, 3.
• To make a wavering, murmuring sound when set in motion and rubbed one part upon another or against something else; give out a slightly sibilant sound when shaken: as, a rustling silk; rustling foliage; rustling wings.
• To move about or along with a rustling sound.
• To stir about; bestir one's self; struggle or strive, especially against obstacles or difficulties; work vigorously or energetically; “hustle.”
• To cause to rustle.
• To shake with a murmuring, rustling sound.
• To make, do, secure, obtain, etc., in a lively, energetic manner.
• noun The noise made by one who or that which rustles; a rustling.
• noun A movement accompanied by a rustling sound.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To cause to rustle.
• intransitive verb To make a quick succession of small sounds, like the rubbing or moving of silk cloth or dry leaves.
• intransitive verb Slang, Western U.S. To stir about energetically; to strive to succeed; to bustle about.
• intransitive verb To steal; -- used of livestock and esp. of cattle.
• intransitive verb To gather or find by searching.
• noun A quick succession or confusion of small sounds, like those made by shaking leaves or straw, by rubbing silk, or the like; a rustling.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A soft crackling sound similar to the movement of leaves.
• verb ergative To move (something) with a soft crackling sound.
• verb transitive To make or obtain in a lively, energetic way.
• verb transitive To steal (cattle or other livestock).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb forage food
• verb make a dry crackling sound
• noun a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind
• verb take illegally