Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To avert or ward off.
  • [Improp.: see etym.] To weed; pull up by the roots.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To avert; to ward off.
  • transitive verb obsolete To root up.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To avert; to ward off.
  • verb transitive To root up.

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