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- verb intransitive, obsolete To
rush away;escape .
Etymologies
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From Middle English *atrouten, atruten, ætruten, equivalent to a- + rout (“to rush, beat, assail”).
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It begins at break of day, and gives over atrout nine o'clock in the morning, till about an hour before fun - fet, then it flutters again and continues fo to do till night.
Essays Upon Natural History, and Other Miscellaneous Subjects, 1770
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