rusty has definitions from the field of color
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[ adjective ] covered with or consisting of rust

Examples

"a rusty machine" "rusty deposits"

Used in print

(Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)

Opposite every gate was a hitching_post or a stone carriage step , set with a rusty iron ring for tying a horse .

(Ralph J. Salisbury, "On the Old Santa Fe Trail...)

Hardly had Mrs._Roebuck driven off when a rusty pick-up truck , father or grandfather of Senor `` Moriarty 's '' Ford sedan , came screeching to a dust swirling stop , and a brown face appeared , its nose threatened by shards of_what had once been the side window .

On the truck_bed there was nothing smaller than a piece of rusty machinery ; with more time I could have loosened a small burr or cotter_pin -

Related terms

rusted

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[ adjective ] (color) of the color of rust

Synonyms

rust

Used in print

(B. J. D. Meeuse, The Story of Pollination....)

A._armata is much more beautiful in color , at_least in the female of the species : a rich , velvety , rusty red .

Related terms

chromatic

3
[ adjective ] impaired in skill by neglect

Synonyms

out_of_practice

Related terms

unskilled

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[ noun ] Man's first name, popularity rank in the U.S. is 626
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[ adjective ] ancient

Synonyms

hoary

Examples

"hoary jokes"

Related terms

old

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