rooter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rooters
Etymology: From root + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The rooter was terrorized, what with the mechanical noises right behind it, and it abandoned evasive turns and darts and made for the horizon with pitiful desperation.
ref: 1994, Paul Quarrington, Civilization: And Its Part in My Downfall, page 205:
text: Juveniles arriving early tend to become rooters, while late arrivals are forced into stone-turning, having been chased away by the rooters.
ref: 1999, The Secret Life of Animals, page 111:
text: Most rural farming families in the Big Thicket had “rooter hogs and woods cattle” roaming the free range around their homeplaces.
ref: 2009, Larry Jene Fisher, Thad Sitton, C.E. Hunt, Big Thicket People, page 70:
text: Instantly, the rooters were upon it, tearing savagely at the meat and at each other.
ref: 2017, Mildred Wart, Swamp Island:
glosses: One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots.
examples: text: The five rooters or plows are so fastened in the frame that any one or all can be removed if desired, and each rooter is provided with a removable point, which can be taken off and sharpened without removing the entire rooter from the from the frame.
ref: 1920, Halbert Powers Gillette, Earthwork and Its Cost: A Handbook of Earth Excavation, page 122:
text: Breaking old concrete is a simple task for powerful tractor and rooter if the teeth are hooked under slab edge and pulled forward, then raised up by rooter's cable lift.
ref: 1955, Dan K. Heiple, Earthmoving, an Art and a Science, page 18:
text: If the airstrip site is on hard and rocky terrain, it will be necessary to loosen and break the soil by using a rooter.
ref: 1959, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel, Equipment Operator 3 & 2, page 177:
text: Under difficult soil conditions, rooters that work on the same principle as subsoilers are used. Rooters are larger, heavier, and more sturdily built than subsoilers and can loosen the soil up to a depth of 1 meter ( 3.3 ft ) (Fig. 4-6).
ref: 1968, Amihud Y. Goor, Charles Wesley Barney, Forest Tree Planting in Arid Zones, page 173:
glosses: A type of heavy machinery similar to a plow for breaking up soil, concrete, asphalt, etc.
examples: text: In cutting across the grain a small steel cutter, No. 10, must first be used in a similar manner, moving the strip of wood which acts as a gauge, to cut the second line exactly the same width as the "rooter" blade; the "rooter" is then used as before, when the piece between the two lines made by the cutter will be neatly removed without leaving a burr, which would not be the case if the "rooter" was alone used across the grain.
ref: 2023, William Bemrose, Manual of Buhl-Work and Marquetry, page ii:
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glosses: A blade for producing a narrow groove in a piece of wood.
examples: text: The rooter was the tool that convinced me that plumbers and doctors were only alike if you'd missed out on your daily cone of mull. The head of the sewer rooter looked like something an alien would use to bore into your skull.
ref: 2007, Scot Gardner, The Legend of Kevin the Plumber:
glosses: A device for boring a pathway through a blocked drain or sewer.
examples: text: Like so many of the self-made industry emperors of the late 1800s, he had been little more than a pawnshop rooter masquerading in collector's clothing, a connoisseur of canvas monstrosities, trashy novels and poetry collections […]
ref: 1969, Stephen King, The Reaper's Image:
glosses: One who roots or rummages through something.
examples: text: In 2002 a new variant of auto-rooters was discovered in the wild: mass-rooters.
ref: 2003, Lance Spitzner, Honeypots: Tracking Hackers, page 19:
text: The structure of a rooter is a fixed package: a program that generates fixed shell code with a fixed payload, launching it at a single target chosen by the attacker.
ref: 2006, Harold F. Tipton, Micki Krause, Information Security Management Handbook, page 542:
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glosses: A type of malware that obtains and runs using privileged access, bypassing normal security systems.
examples: text: Basically there are two kinds of Christians, the tooters and the rooters - the talkers and the doers.
ref: 1992, Betty Malz, Morning Jam Sessions, page 185:
text: In today's context, any fair review of the "rooters" who contributed to the development of ergonomics and human factors would certainly include references to Earl A. Alluisi, because of his influence on the development of research area, academic programs, professional organizations, and individuals who have shaped the field.
ref: 2006, Waldemar Karwowski, International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors, page 3404:
glosses: One who holds a primary or founding position in an enterprise.
examples: text: It is now possible to see at a glance how good rooters and poor rooters compare in their response to auxin treatments.
ref: 1953, Leslie John Audus, Plant Growth Substances, page 116:
text: In general the stem rooters need to be planted a good deal more deeply than the purely bulb rooting kinds.
ref: 1964, Arthur George Lee Hellyer, The Amateur Gardener, page 355:
text: If only shallow rooters are present, the vegetation will die away quickly during a drought while interspersed deep rooters will thrive longer,
ref: 1983, Ehrenfried Pfeiffer, Bio-Dynamic Gardening and Farming - Volume 2, page 33:
text: A similar effect is obtained by binding the shy rooter with wire immediately above the graft.
ref: 2017, Steve Bradley, R. J. Garner, The Grafter's Handbook, page 93:
glosses: A plant, viewed in terms of how it establishes its roots.
Derived terms: the rooter to the tooter