Rootle vs Rummage - What's the difference?
rootle | rummage |
(of an animal) to dig into the ground, with the snout
*1929, , Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 11
(nautical) To arrange (cargo, goods, etc.) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods.
(nautical) To search a vessel for smuggled goods.
To search something thoroughly and with disregard for the way in which things were arranged.
* Howell
* (Matthew Arnold) (1822-1888)
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
, title= To hastily search for something in a confined space and among many items by carelessly turning things over or pushing things aside.
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, title= (obsolete) Commotion; disturbance.
A thorough search, usually resulting in disorder.
* Walpole
An unorganized collection of miscellaneous objects; a jumble.
(nautical) A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship; also, the act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage; formerly written romage .
As verbs the difference between rootle and rummage
is that rootle is (of an animal) to dig into the ground, with the snout while rummage is (nautical) to arrange (cargo, goods, etc) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods.As a noun rummage is
(obsolete) commotion; disturbance.rootle
English
Verb
(rootl)- Once, presumably, this quadrangle with its smooth lawns, its massive buildings, and the chapel itself was marsh too, where the grasses waved and the swine rootled .
Anagrams
* * *rummage
English
Verb
(rummag)- Hesearcheth his pockets, and taketh his keys, and so rummageth all his closets and trunks.
- What schoolboy of us has not rummaged his Greek dictionary in vain for a satisfactory account!
Keeping the mighty honest, passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Philander went into the next room
Noun
(en noun)- He has such a general rummage and reform in the office of matrimony.
Quotations
''"And this, I take it,- Horatio, in "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 1 l 103-106
''Is the main motive of our preparations
''The source of this our watch, and the chief head
Of this post-haste and rummage in the land."