What does fistle mean?
Fistle means To rustle; to make a slight rustling (or whistling sound)..
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/ˈfɪsəl/ · verb
To rustle; to make a slight rustling (or whistling sound)..
The thing began to fistle among the straw in the cradle.
[…] they both plainly heard a fistling within.
It might be about midnight, when I was awoke by a sort of fistling noise at the head of my couch. It seemed as though something was scratching and stirring about the fern which formed my pillow.
... untroubled in the meadows, the rooks were tossing about over the heath, the sparrows were visiting from tree to tree, and the dead leaves were fistling in troops down the lanes as if returning gay, in companies, from the funeral of Summer.
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Fistle means To rustle; to make a slight rustling (or whistling sound)..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The thing began to fistle among the straw in the cradle.
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