rout
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaʊt/
ipa: [ɹʌʊt]
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
note: verb sense 3, noun sense
ipa: /ɹʌʊt/
ipa: /ɹut/
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
ipa: /ɹaʊt/
ipa: /ɹʌʊt/
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
ipa: /ɹaʊt/
ipa: [ɹʌʊt]
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
note: verb sense 3, noun sense
ipa: /ɹʌʊt/
ipa: /ɹut/
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
ipa: /ɹaʊt/
ipa: /ɹʌʊt/
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: routs
form: routing
form: routed
form: routed
Etymology: A variant of wrout, itself a variant of wroot (“to search or root in the ground”) (obsolete), from Middle English wroten (“to search or root in the ground; of a person: to dig earth; of a worm: to slither, wriggle; to corrode; of a worm: to irritate by biting the skin; to destroy (a fortification) by digging or mining”) [and other forms] (whence root), from Old English wrōtan (“to root up or rummage with the snout”). from Proto-West Germanic *wrōtan, from Proto-Germanic *wrōtaną (“to dig with the nose or snout, to root”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps related to Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“a root”), cf. English wort, English root .
Senses: glosses: To dig or plough (earth or the ground); to till.
glosses: Usually followed by out or up: of a person: to search for and find (something); also (transitive) to completely empty or clear out (something).
examples: text: Nevertheless, he was always stimulated by Winsett, and whenever he caught sight of the journalist's lean bearded face and melancholy eyes he would rout him out of his corner and carry him off for a long talk.
ref: 1920, Edith Wharton, chapter XIV, in The Age of Innocence, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, book I, page 122:
glosses: Usually followed by from: to compel (someone) to leave a place; specifically (usually followed by out or up), to cause (someone) to get out of bed.
examples: text: [L]et us try to realise a party of people arriving before daybreak, on a cold mizzly morning, at a sloppy piece of grassland, routed up by vagrant pigs, and poached into holes by horses out for their Sunday holiday, [...]
ref: 1859, “The Merrie Days of England”, in The National Magazine, volume V, London: W. Kent & Co. […], →OCLC, page 154, column 1:
text: Here was Christmas with some Shorthorns, a black sow of Black Diamond blood, and one of the very best of the day, busily routing by the brook side, and a two-year-old cross between a blood horse and a Suffolk mare.
ref: 1864 July, H. H. B., “The Herds of Great Britain”, in The Farmer’s Magazine, volume XXIV (Third Series; volume LVI overall), number 1, London: Rogerson and Tuxford, […], →OCLC, chapter XLIV (The Butley Abbey, the Playford, and the Wherstead), page 6:
glosses: Of an animal, especially a pig: to search (for something) in the ground with the snout; to root.
glosses: To use a gouge, router, or other tool to scoop out material (from a metallic, wooden, etc., surface), forming a groove or recess.
glosses: Of a person: to search through belongings, a place, etc.; to rummage.
Derived terms: router