rastle
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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De little Rabbits, dey got out de sugar-cane, dey did, en dey rastle wid it, en sweat over it, but twan't no use.
From Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings by Joel Chandler Harris
"I never seed a man yit that I couldn't throw in any sort of a rastle."
From Si Klegg, Book 3 (of 6) Si And Shorty Meet Mr. Rosenbaum, The Spy, Who Relates His Adventures by John McElroy
Well, rastle with that idea later on, sonny.
From From Sand Hill to Pine by Bret Harte
En de little Rabbits, dey hustle 'roun' en rastle wid it, but they couldn't broke it.
From Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings by Joel Chandler Harris
As I say, the winter was a bitter one, and the wild things, panthers an' wolves an' sech, were pretty hard put to it to rastle enough grub to keep them alive.
From Bert Wilson in the Rockies by J. W. Duffield
I rastled the big feller around in the road there for some time, neither of us able to git a good holt.
From 'Me--Smith' by Gayle Porter Hoskins
"He rastled with my finger," he remarked to Tipton, holding up the member, "the damned little cuss!"
From Selected Stories of Bret Harte by Bret Harte
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