reeshle

present singular third person reeshles · participle present reeshling · participle past reeshled · past reeshled

1. ScotlandTo move with, or make, a crashing or rustling sound.

   […] and once snow slurred upon the root and thudded reeshling to the ground.

   2009 May 1, Nan Shepherd, The Grampian Quartet: The Quarry Wood: The Weatherhouse: A Pass in the Grampians: The Living Mountain, Canongate Books, →ISBN

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   ... their pows, An' their shin-banes reeshle i' their hose, An' sigh an grane, […]

   1887, William Walker, The Bards of Bon-Accord, 1375-1860, page 356

   He could hear them reeshling up the river bank. And their feet clanking along the footpath. They were running away […]

   2002, Mike Royston, A New Windmill Book of Very Short Stories, Heinemann, →ISBN, page 74

   The ever-shifting whoosh of water and the reeshling of leaves came from her lips as they moved.

   2013 August 22, Andrew Greig, Fair Helen, riverrun, →ISBN

   At this, the whooshing, brattling, reeshling sound becomes laughter, rattling the windowpanes and bursting past Callum on its way out the door, and as he staggers backwards, he thinks he hears it whistling off, down the lane, off up the green hill past the monument[…]

   2019 August 15, Alan McClure, Callum and the Mountain, Beaten Track Publishing, →ISBN, page 27