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a1400 Siege Jerusalem (Laud) (1932) 277 (MED) Þan was rotlyng [v.r. rutlynge] in Rome, robbyng of brynnyes.

c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 22 (MED) The bolk about whan þei goo to Rutte not as þe hert doþ bute moche lowere þan þe herte and Ruttelyng [Fr. gargatant] in the þrote.

1538 D. Lindsay Complaynte & Test. Popiniay sig. Dij I am a blak monke sayd the rutland [1592 Rutill and] rauine.

1678 J. Young in R. Hooke Lect. & Coll. 105 Those symptoms became more fierce, depaupering his spirits, prostrating his appetite, disquieting his sleep with dreams, a Dyspnoea, and rutling violent Cough.

1756 C. Smart Goodness of Supreme Being 10 Tho' their throats coarse ruttling hurt the ear, They mean it all for music.

1794 J. Rowlin Compl. Cow-doctor 202 It stops and impedes the breathing of the animal, insomuch that it causes a snoring and ruttling in the head.

1857 G. Borrow Romany Rye II. ix. 111 Little or no ruttling having been heard in the tube.

1862 G. Borrow Wild Wales III. viii. 75 The ruttling of the smoker's pipe in the chimney-corner.

1911 H. Van Dyke Poems 147 Still I turned The bowsprit west, and felt among the floes Of ruttling ice along the Greenland coast.

2003 Recent Adv. Pediatrics 20 3 As many as 48% of children wheeze during the first 6 years of life, while other sounds such as stridor, snoring, snuffling and ruttling are all relatively common.