rastle
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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Well, rastle with that idea later on, sonny.
From From Sand Hill to Pine by Bret Harte
Givens, feeling aggrieved, and suspicious of fouls, shook his fist at the lion, and shouted: "I'll rastle you again for twenty—" and then he got back to himself.
From Heart of the West [Annotated] by Joseph E. Loewenstein
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
The Judge and me are only going to rastle with the sperrit of that gay young galoot, when he drops down for his girl—and exhort him pow’ful!
From The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various
Givens, feeling aggrieved, and suspicious of fouls, shook his fist at the lion, and shouted: "I'll rastle you again for twenty--" and then he got back to himself.
From Heart of the West by O. Henry
"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
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
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