v. Now dial. [var. of WROOT v.: cf. ROUT v.8] intr. = WROOT v. 1.

1

1530.  in Ancestor, XI. (1904), 183. Crest a boore silver wrouting in a bushe of nettelles vert.

2

1530.  Palsgr., 786/1. I wroote, or wroute, as a swyne dothe, je fouille du museau.

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1565.  Satir. Poems Reform., i. 355. Ledd with th’ affection, th’ onlie Springe and Roote, that all godlie Goverment clerelie wroutethe owte.

4

1624.  Sanderson, Two Serm. (1628), 46. Like Swine…, we grouze vp the ake-cornes, and … lie wrouting & thrusting our noses in the earth for more.

5

1825–63.  in dial. glossaries (N. Cy., Nhp., Dorset) s.v.

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