RUSTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rusted mean? 

• RUSTED (adjective)
  The adjective RUSTED has 1 sense:

1. having accumulated rust

  Familiarity information: RUSTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUSTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having accumulated rust

Context example:

rusted hinges

Similar:

rusty (covered with or consisting of rust)

Antonym:

rustless (without rust)

 Context examples 

“What are these bits of stone, and of wood, and rusted nails, which are set out in front of him?”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His axe was near him, but the blade was rusted and the handle broken off short.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

In the stern-sheets I found a rusty ten-gauge shot-gun and a sailor’s sheath-knife broken short across and so rusted as to be almost unrecognizable.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was a linen bag which contained within it a mass of old rusted and discoloured metal and several dull-coloured pieces of pebble or glass.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We sat before a little fire, with two bricks put within the rusted grate, one on each side, to prevent its burning too many coals; until another debtor, who shared the room with Mr. Micawber, came in from the bakehouse with the loin of mutton which was our joint-stock repast.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The rusted gates between the crumbling heraldic pillars were folded back, and my uncle flicked the mares impatiently as we flew up the weed-grown avenue, until he pulled them on their haunches before the time-blotched steps.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These tears ran slowly down his face and over the hinges of his jaw, and there they rusted.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

In this space lay a large and heavy flagstone with a rusted iron ring in the centre to which a thick shepherd’s-check muffler was attached.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Strange it was to these gallant and sparkling cavaliers of Spain to look upon this handful of men upon the hill, the thin lines of bowmen, the knots of knights and men-at-arms with armor rusted and discolored from long service, and to learn that these were indeed the soldiers whose fame and prowess had been the camp-fire talk of every army in Christendom.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When Dorothy presently asked him a question the Tin Woodman could not open his mouth, for his jaws were tightly rusted together.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)