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▪ I. groot, n. Obs. exc. dial.|gruːt|
Also 4–7 grut, 5 (9 dial.) grute, 7 grewt, 8 greut.
[Related to OE. gréot, grit n.1, and grout n.: but the precise nature of the relation is uncertain.]
Mud, soil, earth.
13..Coer de L. 4339 The toun dykes..wer..Ful off grut, no man myghte swymme. c1440Promp. Parv. 218/1 Grute [MS. Harl. 221 gurte, other MSS. grut], fylthe, limus. 1600Hosp. Inc. Fooles 62 All the horse and cowes dung..in time of dearth that grut or riff-raffe woulde be good to make an Italian torto withal. 1671Phil. Trans. VI. 2097 The earth, or Grewt. 1681Grew Musæum iii. §2 ii. 328 A sort of Tin Ore with its Grewt. 1776Pryce Min. Cornub. 322 Greut or Grit, a kind of fossil body, of sandy rough, hard, earthy, particles. 1827D. Johnson Indian Field Sports 294 In Devonshire the word groot is used by all farmers..for dry earth. 1880W. Cornwall Gloss., Grute, Greet, coffee grounds, finely pulverised soil. 1891Hartland Gloss., Grute, loose earth, soil. Grute-rest, the moal-board (mould-board) of a timbern-zole.
Hence ˈgrooty a., muddy.
1848S. Carter Midnt. Effusions 192 The measureless solitudes shrubless and grooty.
▪ II. groot, v.|gruːt|
See also grout v.2
[app. f. groot n. Cf. however wroot, root v.]
Of a hog: To grub up or ‘muzzle’ the ground. Hence ˈgrooting vbl. n.
1827D. Johnson Indian Field Sports 247 Marks of their feet and grooting are visible in every moist place. Note, Grooting is..used by hog-hunters for the places where they have been muzzling the earth. 1834Medwin Angler in Wales I. 109 Heaps of earth, and holes, where the hogs had been ‘grooting’. |