wrout, v. Now dial.
[var. of wroot v.: cf. rout v.8]
intr. = wroot v. 1.
| 1530 in Ancestor XI. (1904) 183 Crest a boore silver wrouting in a bushe of nettelles vert. 1530 Palsgr. 786/1, I wroote, or wroute, as a swyne dothe, je fouille du museau. 1565 Satir. Poems Reform. i. 355 Ledd with th' affection, th' onlie Springe and Roote, that all godlie Goverment clerelie wroutethe owte. 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. 1825–63 in dial. glossaries (N. Cy., Nhp., Dorset) s.v. |