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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
rootle .
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Examples
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Gran rootles about in her bag and pulls out a little bottle.
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Cincinnatus the grand old gardener was saving daylight under his redwoodtree one sultry sabbath afternoon, Hag Chivychas Eve, in prefall paradise peace by following his plough for rootles in the rere garden of mobhouse, ye olde marine hotel, when royalty was announced by runner to have been pleased to have halted itself on the highroad along which a leisureloving dogfox had cast followed, also at walking pace, by a lady pack of cocker spaniels.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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The jungle is not going to be a place where she can rehabilitate her image - or not unless she basically rootles through the undergrowth every day for the next two weeks hoovering up every tiny creature.
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