Word Finder - rusty

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Marked or corroded by rust.

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Of the rust color, reddish or reddish-brown.

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Lacking recent experience, out of practice, especially with respect to a skill or activity.

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Of clothing, especially dark clothing: worn, shabby.

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Affected with the fungal plant disease called rust.

He hurried to his rusty Ford and by the time he pulled out on Ocean View Avenue, the man was out of sight and out of mind.

Rusty hinges were still visible in the wood but no door barred the entrance nor could anything be seen beyond but utter blackness.

Another guard took each of his arms and cuffed him in rusty iron fetters.

Brandon Westlake, lustfully examining a pile of rusty tins, was pulled away by Paulette Dawkins for consultation.

This looked a bit rusty to say the least.

At first it was feared that such bars would have a tendency to slip through the concrete in which they were embedded, but experiments have shown that if the bar is not painted but has a natural rusty surface a very considerable adhesion between the concrete and steel - as much as 2 cwt.

He couldn't wait to list his rusty tins, copper mugs, and brass candle sticks on an Internet auction site.

She ran to the kitchen and searched for a something sharp, settling for a rusty old butcher knife.

The Prussian offer expressed a doubt that his long absence from university teaching might have made him rusty, so he accepted the post at Heidelberg, whence Fries had just gone to Jena (October 1816).

The eastern phase is generally rusty red above, with the inner sides of the limbs white; while the predominant hue in the western form is usually yellowish brown.

A blunt rusty sword will do - slow and painful !

The general colour of the upper parts is yellowish grey, with or without a rusty tinge, which is, however, always noticeable on the head; while the underparts are lighter.

The original five arched aqueduct has been replaced by three large rusty pipes which maintain the water supply to the rest of the canal.

The perils are different but it is possible to go much better prepared than carrying a rusty assegai!

He put the rusty blowlamp on the cylinder head, ' Tis a fine day for boating ', the old boatman said.

I'm well-known in these parts. ' The clerk stared at him and the rusty black bonnet a moment, and then laughed.

He had a miniature dachshund named Rusty, " He's a lovely little fellow.

Become crushed into shards or melt as I speak rusty hooks, jeweled daggers, dark candy.

The machinery is very rusty, except for the copper parts.

The angel Jeffrey's halo may be rusty.

By the operation of meteoric agencies, iron pyrites readily pass into limonite often with retention of external form; and the masses of "gozzan" or "gossan" on the outcrop of certain mineral-veins consist of rusty iron ore formed in this way, and associated with cellular quartz.

All the above enumerated lambs are naturally a rusty black or brown, and with very few exceptions are dyed a jet black.

It is nearly allied to the grivet, but distinguished (as indicated by its name) by the presence of a rusty patch at the root of the tail, and by the black (instead of grey) chin, hands and feet.

Its groups include the Dakota formation, characterized by a very peculiar rusty sandstone, and the Benton, both of which are rather widely accessible and heavy; the Niobrara; the Pierre shales, which apparently underlie about three-quarters of the state in a deep and heavy bed; and, in the extreme west, the Laramie.

The emaciated, and now exhausted visitor presented Dean with a signed copy of his book, which Dean summarily dumped in the trash without even breaking the spine before the black exhaust of Arlen's rusty Toyota had left the street.

Rusty's voice was fantastic and puts all the popular recording artistes to shame.

Rusty was holding the cat comforter bed in front of him to keep them from jumping out at him.

He has what looks like a rusty old dustbin, the lid being replaced by a copper retort.

These days, you get an eyeful of rusty sheriff's badge on every other page.

The rusty original sluice paddle gate has survived being buried for 30 years.

The opening half hour was largely uneventful, with both sides looking a little rusty after a summer without competition.

I'd sell the yellow one first if someone really wanted it and didn't want the rusty heap to go with it.

She unlocked huge, studded, oak doors, pushing them open to the accompaniment of perfect B movie groans from the rusty hinges.

Even the sleevenotes by Rusty Kershaw, his occasional fiddle player and slide guitarist, seem to be there for their sheer incoherence.

The ashes of a fire showed beyond rusty bars of the grate under a black marble mantelpiece.

Her voice had the quality of a metal chair being scraped over rusty nails.

He found a dirty handkerchief, a conker on a piece of string and a rusty old penknife.

We climbed up on the precariously balanced step to the rope and spotted the rusty old piton that it was attached to.

So I turned around and could only see an old pram with no wheels left by someone to go rusty in the open air.

The base of the grave, surrounded by rusty iron railings, is also in a pretty rough state.

Anyway, let me know what you think - I have to admit I feel a bit rusty.

Was past grade 8 on oboe, but getting a bit rusty.

She also speaks French (speech is somewhat rusty) having studied it for her ' A ' levels.

We always assume people's memory of the languages is slightly rusty.

Murph - Yeah - I dropped in on my old life drawing class a couple years ago, and I felt pretty rusty.

The weapon, tho, has not been used of late and is rather rusty.

My rear drums are going rusty, what can I do?

Despite his relatively recent return to action, he's not looking too rusty.

Some children may also have allowed their road safety skills to become rusty over the summer holidays.

Matt was speaking Greek, but he felt rusty, felt awkward, was waiting for her to rescue him.