intransitive. British regional, Irish English, and U.S. regional (chiefly southern and Chesapeake Bay). To forage, delve; to poke about for; to…

intransitive. To search through something; to poke around something; to rummage. Chiefly with adverbial phrase. Cf. root, v.2 3b.

transferred and figurative. To search in an undignified, abject, or grovelling manner; to rummage.

intransitive. To search or forage for something; to ferret around; to root or ramble about.

figurative. intransitive. Originally British regional and Irish English. To rummage around; to search through something; to pry or poke into…

intransitive. To go in search of something, esp. food or provisions; to hunt around for something; to forage, scavenge. Also occasionally transitive…

intransitive. Of an animal, esp. a pig: to root or grub in the earth. Also in extended use: (of a person) to poke about; to search around or…

intransitive. To seek to obtain by irregular means, as by stealth or begging; to hunt about or rummage (for something).

Originally and chiefly U.S. intransitive. With about, around. To search around; to root about; to rummage.