ˈrookle, v.
dial. var. of rootle v. Hence ˈrookler; ˈrookling ppl. a.
| 1855 Kingsley Westw. Ho! viii, Such were then the pigs of Devon: not to be compared with the..game-flavoured little rooklers. 1857 ― Two Y. Ago II. 70 Rookling in their drains, like an old sow. 1865 ― Poems, Martin Lightfoot's Song, To the rookling sow took he. |