What's the difference between rustler and thief?

Rustler


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, rustles.
  • (n.) A bovine animal that can care for itself in any circumstances; also, an alert, energetic, driving person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Photograph: Alamy The haunt, at various points over the millennia, of dinosaurs, cattle rustlers, horse thieves and the painter Georgia O'Keefe, Ghost Ranch , an hour north of Santa Fe, is a draw for palaeontology buffs, hikers and artists.
  • (2) The company says that its gear currently monitors cattle rustlers and other smugglers on and around Lake Victoria in central Africa's Rift Valley, with great success.
  • (3) The cross-border pursuit of bicycle thieves, piglet rustlers and those accused of trivial offences is damaging the credibility of the European arrest warrant , according to a report from Brussels.
  • (4) The book rustlers of Timbuktu: how Mali's ancient manuscripts were saved Read more The militants were driven out after nearly a year by a French military intervention.
  • (5) Marco Rubio vents frustration over media reports in late-night Twitter spree A stinging whoddunit American beekeepers in California are dealing with the rise of a new kind of criminal: the bee rustler .

Thief


Definition:

  • (n.) One who steals; one who commits theft or larceny. See Theft.
  • (n.) A waster in the snuff of a candle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is a gripping read from the opening, with the Ku Klux Klan menacing his pregnant mother, through to the troubled last months of his life: we follow Malcolm Little, common thief, on his journey to Malcolm X , inspirational leader.
  • (2) 8.41am BST Oscar Trial Channel (@OscarTrial199) Masipa says leaking of documents is disservice to justice, and that person who does it, is a thief.
  • (3) The popularity of criminal memoirs in the 1990s brought new opportunities and Reynolds wrote The Autobiography of a Thief in 1995.
  • (4) The following messages are elaborated: osteoporosis is a silent thief; backache during the menopause is not always osteoporosis; detection of the patient at risk for osteoporotic fractures is possible; primary osteoarthrosis protects against osteoporosis; bone densitometry has given osteoporosis a scientific cachet; bones are not stones, effective prevention and treatment are possible, there are alternatives to calcium and hormone replacement therapies.
  • (5) A suspected jewel thief was killed and another seriously injured during a police chase after an attempted ram raid at one of the London branches of the jewellers Tiffany and Co yesterday.
  • (6) He was dishonourably discharged from the army on a charge of indecency, roamed Europe as a vagrant, thief and homosexual prostitute, then spent a lengthy period in and out of jail in Paris following a dozen or so arrests for larceny, the use of false papers, vagabondage and lewd behaviour.
  • (7) In my part of the world, we have a saying that the man who carries a pot of palm oil from the ceiling is not the only thief.
  • (8) Representative Mike Rogers, chairman of the House intelligence committee, suggested Greenwald was a “thief” after he worked with news organizations who paid for stories based on the documents.
  • (9) Gina Rinehart's son, John Hancock, called his youngest sister "an oxygen thief", a Sydney court heard during the latest battle over control of the family's multibillion-dollar trust.
  • (10) The criminals For many years after the second world war, George “Taters” Chatham was Britain’s busiest jewel thief.
  • (11) Procrastination is the thief of time.” Last week, the chancellor echoed the exact same sentiments – “the sooner you start the smoother the ride” – as he announced a raft of Whitehall spending cuts as a down payment on the £25bn he’s planning to spend over the next three years.
  • (12) Ibori, a petty thief who rose to be one of Nigeria’s richest men, received a 13-year jail sentence in London in 2012 after admitting fraud of nearly £50m.
  • (13) Holder was fatally shot in the city’s East Harlem neighborhood while pursuing a bicycle thief.
  • (14) Another, Julie Behar, wrote that Madoff deserved a "sentence befitting a thief and murderer" while a Connecticut doctor said the entire retirement plan of his practice had been wiped out, leaving 140 employees with nothing.
  • (15) A few synaptic contacts between two adjacent chief cells are seen, and so are direct contacts between thief cells and preganglionic efferent nerve fibers terminating on ganglion cells.
  • (16) Incidentally, these sad long-term cases will do more than twice the maximum any court can sentence a thief to on Community Payback.
  • (17) You can wait until a cop gets here,” Bike Batman said he told the thief.
  • (18) The thief left the building unnoticed, then returned the artwork the next day by throwing it over the wall of the sculpture garden.
  • (19) But presumably the Sun also believes that you shouldn’t point out there’s a fire down the road if your own house isn’t burning down, and you should never chase after a thief who robbed the woman next to you if your own wallet is still safely secured in your pocket.
  • (20) He also called the incumbent president a “genocidaire”, a thief and a pyromaniac in a Facebook post that led to Bongo opening proceedings against him.

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