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Definition of Rowting
1. rowt [v] - See also: rowt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rowting
Literary usage of Rowting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Letters of John Collingwood Bruce of Newcastle-upon-Tyne by Gainsford Bruce, John Collingwood Bruce (1905)
"For a long time the attention of some antiquaries had been called to markings on
rocks of a peculiar character near rowting Lynn in Northumberland, ..."
2. Turbervile's Booke of Hunting, 1576 by George Turberville (1908)
"they come into corne fieldes they follow a furrow, rowting and worming all ...
their rowting as the wylde ..."
3. British Animals Extinct Within Historic Times: With Some Account of British by James Edmund Harting (1880)
"... snout is longer: and when they come into corne fieldes they follow a furrow,
rowting and worming all along by some balke untill they come to the end. ..."
4. A Glossary of Words Used in Swaledale, Yorkshire by John Harland (1876)
"'A rowting cow soonest forget« its calf," extravagant grief for the dead often
ends in speedy forgetfulness. ..."
5. Tales of Woman's Trials by S. C. Hall, Mrs S C Hall (1835)
"Ye thought when ye tried to sing an imitation of the singing at the Rockhouse,
that it was like the rowting o' your father's big bull ; and I can assure you ..."
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