Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Middle English form of
root . - noun In mining, very small threads of ore.
- noun An obsolete or dialectal form of
rout .
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Examples
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Uh Corse, if yuz wanna 'rilly tawk ike a Fluffian, en yuz godda moove' ere, dgrive over the Wall Women Bridge to Sener Siddy or Sow Shreet and rute for dem Iggles.
I'm from Philly aka TBTAM 2008
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Selayaknya sedang menerbangi jalur rute maskapai penerbangan regular, mereka terbang memasuki wilayah Irak.
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If they were not, they will have a tree branch rute in their boots instead.
‘Twas the night before Saint Nicholas Day « Musings from an overworked translator 2008
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But sum fallz onna gud grownd, taykz rute, n groze strawng-liek.
Hai! I was wonderin’ if you had - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Uji coba terbang dengan bahan bakar baru selama 3 jam dengan rute Filton, UK dan Tolouse, Perancis.
EVENT/INCIDENT 2008 ACCORDING TO DATE(NATIONAL&a 2008
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Awaywrong wandler surking to a rightrare rute for his plain utterrock sukes, appelled to by her fancy claddaghs.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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County Monachan, whereat samething is rivi-sible by nighttim, may be involted into the zeroic couplet, palls pell inhis heventh glike noughty times ì, find, if you are not literally cooefficient, how minney combinaisies and per-mutandies can be played on the international surd! pthwndxrclzp!, hids cubid rute being extructed, taking anan illitterettes, ififif at a tom.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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"Wal, the rute o 'the matter was, 't as soon 's I was healed up inter some shape ag'in, I went and see Phoeby Hamlin -- she 't was."
Vesty of the Basins Sarah P. McLean Greene 1895
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‘Tak a knyf & shere it smal, the rute and alle, & sethe it in water; take the _broo_ of that, and late it go thorow a clowte’ -- evidently the juice.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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But this same fairplay lies, alang wi 'love, at the varra rute and f'undation o' the universe.
Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864
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