Rout
Rout (rout) , intransitive verb
[Anglo-Saxon hrūtan.]
To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly. [Obsolete or Scottish] — Chaucer
Rout , noun
A bellowing; a shouting; noise; clamor; uproar; disturbance; tumult. — Shakespeare
This new book the whole world makes such a rout about.
“My child, it is not well,” I said,
“Among the graves to shout;
To laugh and play among the dead,
And make this noisy rout.”
Rout , transitive verb
[A variant of root.]
To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow.
Collocations (1)
To rout out , (a) To turn up to view, as if by rooting; to discover; to find (b) To turn out by force or compulsion; as, to rout people out of bed. [Colloquial]
Rout , intransitive verb
To search or root in the ground, as a swine. — Edwards
Rout , noun
[Old French route, Late Latin rupta, properly, a breaking, from Latin ruptus, past participle of rumpere to break. See Rupture, reave, and compare Rote repetition of forms, Route. In some senses this word has been confused with rout a bellowing, an uproar.]
1.
A troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng. [Obsolete]
A route of ratones [rats].
A great solemn route.
And ever he rode the hinderest of the route.
A rout of people there assembled were.
2.
A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people.
the endless routs of wretched thralls.
The ringleader and head of all this rout.
Nor do I name of men the common rout.
3.
The state of being disorganized and thrown into confusion; -- said especially of an army defeated, broken in pieces, and put to flight in disorder or panic; also, the act of defeating and breaking up an army; as, the rout of the enemy was complete.
thy army...
Dispersed in rout, betook them all to fly.
To these giad conquest, murderous rout to those.
4.
(Law) A disturbance of the peace by persons assembled together with intent to do a thing which, if executed, would make them rioters, and actually making a motion toward the executing thereof. — Wharton
5.
A fashionable assembly, or large evening party.
At routs and dances.
Collocations (1)
To put to rout , to defeat and throw into confusion; to overthrow and put to flight.
Rout , transitive verb
To break the ranks of, as troops, and put them to flight in disorder; to put to rout.
That party... that charged the Scots, so totally routed and defeated their whole army, that they fied.
Rout , intransitive verb
To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company. [obsolete] — Bacon
In all that land no Christian[s] durste route.