rout : Idioms & Phrases

Rev"el-rout` noun

Etymology

See Rout.

Definitions

1. Tumultuous festivity; revelry. Obs. Rowe.
2. A rabble; a riotous assembly; a mob. Obs.

Webster 1913

• verb get or find by searching
  rout out.
  
  • What did you rout out in the library?
• verb force or drive out
  force out; rouse; drive out.
  
  • The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M.
• verb cause to flee
  rout; expel.
  
  • rout out the fighters from their caves

WordNet

• verb get or find by searching
  rout out.
  
  • What did you rout out in the library?

WordNet

• to defeat and throw into confusion; to overthrow and put to flight.

Webster 1913

• (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. Colloq.

Webster 1913