fissle

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A form of fistle — To rustle; to make a slight rustling (or whistling sound).

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Meanings

verbfissle (third-person singular simple present fissles, present participle fissling, simple past and past participle fissled)

present singular third person fissles · participle present fissling · participle past fissled · past fissled

  1. alternativeAlternative form of fistle.

    Above us my flag, the Waterwheel emblem black on white, fissled and rustled. This tower was my haunt, my eyrie, my silent kingdom, and the serrated peaks of Darkling lurked out of sight below the horizon.

    2010, Steph Swainston, Above the Snowline, Gollancz, →ISBN
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    ... by reason of its handsome hangings fixed on the ten foot high bed-posts that ran up almost to the roof on its front side. The beggar man fissled for a few minutes with the bedtick, and to all intents slipped something inside it.

    1917, Seumas MacManus, Lo, and Behold Ye!, page 101
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APA

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MLA

“fissle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fissle. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fissle,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fissle.

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