rustler
Example Sentences
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The rustler is usually a beekeeper or someone familiar with the transportation of bees.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2022
An eccentric gunfighter for hire must protect a cattle baron’s herd from a rustler and his gang.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2021
Is that a breeze, or could a rustler be lurking there, ready to swathe himself like a ghost?
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 12, 2018
The rangers have the respect of cattle rustlers; they know this because a rustler said so.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2011
Though reserved to the point of being shy, the sheriff was adept at assuming undercover identities, having pretended to be everything from a cow rustler to a counterfeiter.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
