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▪ I. † wroot, n. Obs.
In 1 wrot, urot, uurot, 4–5 wrot, 5 wrotte, wroughte.
[OE. wrót, = MLG. wrote (a mole), LG. wrote, wröte, WFlem. wroete (snout). Cf. next and wort n.3]
The snout of a swine, etc.; a proboscis.
c725Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) B 188 Bruncus, wrot. a1100Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 118 Promuscida, ylpes bile, uel wrot. a1325Old Age ii. in E.E.P. (1862) 149 Moch me anueþ þat mi dribil druiþ and mi wrot wet. c1375in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1875) 43 Þis bestes heore wrot to him gonne beode. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiii. xxix. (Tollem. MS.), The sea swyne..piccheþ þe wrot [1535 snowte] in grauel. Ibid. xviii. xlii. (Bodl. MS.), With his wrotte and snowte he wroteþ vp treen. 14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 587 Grunnus,..a gruyn, or a wrot.
▪ II. † wroot, v. Obs.
Forms: 1 wrotan, 2–4 wroten (5 -yn), 4–7 wrote (5 wroth-), 4–6 wroote, 6–7 wroot (5 Sc. wrotte, 6 wrutt).
[OE. wrótan, = OFris. *wrôta (WFris. wrotte, NFris. wrote, wröte, wrät), MLG. wroten (LG. wröten), MDu. and Du. wroeten (Antwerp dial. wruten), OHG. *wrôzian, ruozian to plough up, ON. and Icel. róta, (M)Sw. and Norw. rota, Da. rode), f. wrót wroot n. Cf. root v.2, wort v., wrout v.]
1. intr. To turn up soil with the snout, as swine in search of food; to dig up the earth by grubbing; = root v.2 1. Also in fig. context.
c725Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) S 689 Subigo, wrotu. a1000Riddles xl[i]. 107 Swin, bearᵹ bellende on bocwuda won wrotende wynnum lifde. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 37 Alse swin, þe uulieð and wroteð and sneuieð aure fule. c1205Lay. 469 Wilde swin þat wroteð ȝeond þan grouen. c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋83 (Ellesm.), Right as a soughe wroteth in euerich ordure; so wroteth [other MSS. add sche, she] hire beautee in stynkynge ordure of synne. c1410Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) v, [Wild boars] wrote in þe grounde with þe rowell of hir snowte. c1420Avow. Arth. xii, The bore..be-gynnus to wrote, He ruskes vppe mony a rote. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 20 In the wyldernesse of this worlde where they labour & wroote in the erth. a1586Sidney De Mornay Pref. ⁋2 We..preach the kingdome of heauen, and haue our groynes euer wrooting in the ground. 1587Harrison England iii. viii. (1878) ii. 52 Some [sheep] also will wroot for them [sc. saffron-bulbs] in verie eger maner. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. ii. 320 That cruell Boare, whose tusks turn'd up whole fields of graine, And wrooting, raised hills upon the leuell Plaine. 1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 144 To lye it wheare it may bee well wroten amongst with swine and beasts. Ibid. 148 Rye-strawe, well wrote amongst.
b. transf. Of worms.
c1308Erthe upon Erthe 2 Þan schullen an hundred wormes wroten on þe skin. 13..E.E. Allit. P. C. 467 God wayned a worme þat wrot vpe þe rote. a1425Cursor M. 23281 (Trin.), Þo wormes euer shul on hem wrote. 1430–40Lydg. Bochas i. 6435 Lik a werm that wrotith on a tre.
c. Of persons: To turn up the ground. rare—1.
c1325Orfeo 239 Now he most bothe digge and wrote, Er he have his fille of rote.
2. trans. To turn over, dig or tear up, with the snout, as in grubbing or burrowing; = root v.2 2. Occas. with up. Also in fig. context.
c1000Ags. Ps. (Thorpe) lxxix. 13 Hine utan of wuda eoferas wrotað. a1352Minot Poems vi. 32–33 A were es wroght,..Ȝowre walles with to wrote. Wrote þai sal ȝowre dene. c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. I. 406 Molde-worpis þat wroten þe erþe. 1398[see wroot n.]. c1410Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) xxiv, Rootes þat þei [sc. boars] wrote oute of þe erthe. c1440Gesta Rom. 148 (Addit. MS.), There entred a swyne, and the new plantes..he wroted. 1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 102 The Sow..wrooting vp the clots of the yearth. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 29 Cursed be those Swynishe senses, whiche can wroote together all rootes of wickednesse. [16012nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass. iii. iv. 1390 If his earth wroting snout shall gin to scorne.]
transf.1535Coverdale Prov. xv. 27 The couetous man wrutteth vp his owne house.
b. To draw or cast (earth, etc.) by grubbing.
c1440Pallad. on Husb. i. 802 Light molde aboute and on, anoon let wroote. Ibid. iii. 445 More [mould] a litel herre vppon hit wrote. Ibid. xii. 469 But wete hym ofte, and donge aboute hym wrote.
Hence † ˈwrooting ppl. a. Obs.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 79 A wroting vlcus [L. vlcus corosiuum] is þat of his malice fretiþ [B.M. Addit. MS. wroteþ]. 1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 132 The wrotyng hogge. 1600Thynne Emblems (1876) xxiii. 5 With wrootinge groyne..[the] warlike bore Turnes vp and betters that bad lande.
▪ III. wroot
obs. erron. form of root v.1 |