brustlien

Middle English

Verb

brustlien

1. To crackle or rustle
   • c. 1386–1390, John Gower, edited by Reinhold Pauli, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1857, →OCLC:

     Right as a ship ayein the streme
     He routeth with a ſlepy noiſe
     And bruſtleth as a monkes froiſe

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