Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
ROUT
rout
(noun) an overwhelming defeat
mob, rabble, rout
(noun) a disorderly crowd of people
spreadeagle, spread-eagle, rout
(verb) defeat disastrously
rout, rout out, expel
(verb) cause to flee; “rout out the fighters from their caves”
rout, gouge
(verb) make a groove in
rout, root, rootle
(verb) dig with the snout; “the pig was rooting for truffles”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
rout (third-person singular simple present routs, present participle routing, simple past and past participle routed)
(intransitive) To make a noise; roar; bellow; snort.
(intransitive) To snore, especially loudly.
(intransitive) To belch.
(intransitive) To howl as the wind; make a roaring noise.
Noun
rout (plural routs)
A noise, especially a loud one
A disturbance; tumult.
Snoring.
Etymology 2
Verb
rout (third-person singular simple present routs, present participle routing, simple past and past participle routed)
(transitive, now chiefly, dialectal) To beat; strike; assail with blows.
Noun
rout (plural routs)
(now chiefly, dialectal) A violent movement; a great or violent stir; a heavy blow; a stunning blow; a stroke.
Etymology 3
Noun
rout (plural routs)
A troop or group, especially of a traveling company or throng.
A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people.
The state of being disorganized and thrown into confusion, especially when retreating from a fight.
The act of defeating and breaking up an army or another opponent.
(legal) A disturbance of the peace by persons assembled together with the intent to do a thing which, if executed, would make them rioters, and actually making a motion toward the executing thereof.
A fashionable assembly, or large evening party.
Verb
rout (third-person singular simple present routs, present participle routing, simple past and past participle routed)
(transitive) To defeat completely, forcing into disorderly retreat.
(intransitive) To retreat from a confrontation in disorder.
(obsolete, intransitive) To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company.
Etymology 4
Verb
rout (third-person singular simple present routs, present participle routing, simple past and past participle routed)
To search or root in the ground, like a pig.
To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow.
To use a router in woodworking.
Etymology 5
Noun
rout (plural routs)
The brent goose.
Anagrams
• Tour, tour, trou
Source: Wiktionary
Rout (rout), v. i. Etym: [AS. hrutan.]
Definition: To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly. [Obs. or Scot.] Chaucer.
Rout, n.
Definition: A bellowing; a shouting; noise; clamor; uproar; disturbance; tumult. Shak. This new book the whole world makes such a rout about. Sterne. "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." Trench.
Rout, v. t. Etym: [A variant of root.]
Definition: To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow. 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. [Colloq.]
Rout, v. i.
Definition: To search or root in the ground, as a swine. Edwards.
Rout, n. Etym: [OF. route, LL. rupta, properly, a breaking, fr. L. ruptus, p.p. of rumpere to break. See Rupture, reave, and cf. Rote repetition of forms, Route. In some senses this word has been confused with rout a bellowing, an uproar.] [Formerly spelled also route.]
1. A troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng. [Obs.] "A route of ratones [rats]." Piers Plowman. "A great solemn route." Chaucer. And ever he rode the hinderest of the route. Chaucer. A rout of people there assembled were. Spenser.
2. A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people. the endless routs of wretched thralls. Spenser. The ringleader and head of all this rout. Shak. Nor do I name of men the common rout. Milton.
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. Daniel. To these giad conquest, murderous rout to those. pope.
4. (Law)
Definition: 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." Landor. To put to rout, to defeat and throw into confusion; to overthrow and put to flight.
Rout, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Routed; p. pr. & vb. n. Routing.]
Definition: 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. Clarendon.
Syn.
– To defeat; discomfit; overpower; overthrow.
Rout, v. i.
Definition: To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company. [obs.] Bacon. In all that land no Christian[s] durste route. Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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