Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete spelling of
rout , rout, etc.
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- verb chiefly UK Alternative form of
rout . To make a loud noise. - noun chiefly UK Alternative form of
rout . A loud noise.
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Examples
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Finally, he will give you a route, which he will pronounce "rowt."
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Haowebber, da vyoo frum up dere b sew grate dat himz disydz 2 tayk da seenik rowt obber da mowntinz:
Optimist: glass half full. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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I seen U flie bai wyl I wuz taykin da seenik rowt obber da mowntinz, but I koodnt gitz 2 U n tym 2 ketch U — I happytaylz dat U hadded uh sawft landin awn ur kwilt!
Optimist: glass half full. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Haowebber, da vyoo frum up dere b sew grate dat himz disydz 2 tayk da seenik rowt obber da mowntinz:
Optimist: glass half full. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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A colonist in describing the practice wrote that "they have many professed phisitions, who with their charmes and rattels, with an infernall rowt of words and actions, will seeme to sucke their inwarde griefe from their navels or their grieved places."
Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 Thomas Proctor Hughes
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"I have no manner of inclination to rowt out my name to the country-side," said Alan; "but what brings me here is another story, being more of your affair than mine; and if ye're sure it's what ye would like, I'll set it to a tune and sing it to you."
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"I have no manner of inclination to rowt out my name to the country-side," said Alan; "but what brings me here is another story, being more of your affair than mine; and if ye're sure it's what ye would like, I'll set it to a tune and sing it to you."
Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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If man be but a bedel [herald, crier] he shall rowt [Shout] like a lion the first day; and a prince's charetter [charioteer] shall be a full braver [finer, more showy] man than the prince his master.
In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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He does naething but rowt aboot in 's boaratory as he ca's 't -- bore-a-whig, or bore-a-tory, it's little to me -- makin 'stinks there fit to scomfish a whaul, an' gar 'im stick his nose aneth the watter for a glamp o' fresh air.
Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864
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There was a twal hunner shift upo 'the bairn, rowt roon' im like deid claes: -- gien 't had been but the Lord's wull!
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
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