brustle

English

Etymology

Middle English brustlien and brastlien, related to German prasseln (“to crackle”). See burst.

Noun

brustle (plural brustles)

  1. (obsolete or dialectal) A bristle.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

Verb

brustle (third-person singular simple present brustles, present participle brustling, simple past and past participle brustled)

  1. To crackle; to rustle.
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  2. To make a show of fierceness or defiance; to bristle.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Otway to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for brustle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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