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Definition of Rout out

1. Verb. Get or find by searching. "What did you rout out in the library?"

2. Verb. Force or drive out. "The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M."

3. Verb. Cause to flee. "Rout out the fighters from their caves"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rout Out

rousers rouses rousing rousingly rousseaus roussette roust roustabout roustabouts rousted

rouster rousters rousting rousts rout rout out (current term) rout up routable route route of administration

route one football route planner routed routeing routeings routeman routemarch routemen router router plane

Literary usage of Rout out

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1886)
"To rout out. ROUTE, (1) ». A company. (2) ». To assemble in a company. (3) ». A violent stir. Devon. (4) v. To snore ; to roar or bellow, ..."

2. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1857)
"To rout out. ROUTE, (1) ». A company. (2) ». To assemble in a company. (3) ï. A violent stir. Devon. (4) ». To snore ¡ to roar or bellow-, ..."

3. The West Somerset Word-book: A Glossary of Dialectal and Archaic Words and by Frederick Thomas Elworthy (1886)
"... to turn out everything in the act of searching. Tidn no good to zay can't vin'un. I tell 'ee I zeed'n there, an' you must rout out ever> thing gin he's ..."

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