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- verb Present participle of
rowt .
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Examples
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Creator, with holy banners as on a pilgrimage; with men-at-arms, archers, pages, and trains of carts; and with bullocks rowting beneath the goad, and swine that are very hard to drive, and slow-footed sheep, we all crossed the bridge of Blois on the morning of April 25th.
A Monk of Fife Andrew Lang 1878
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Aw the world kens I can answer aw claims on me, and you proffered yourself fair time, till his maist gracious Majesty and the noble Duke suld make settled accompts wi’ me; and ye may ken, by your ain experience, that I canna gang rowting like an unmannered Highland stot to their doors, as ye come to mine.”
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There were plenty of elf bulls rowting and skoyling up and down, and affrighted me. "
Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century James Napier 1847
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Aw the world kens I can answer aw claims on me, and you proffered yourself fair time, till his maist gracious Majesty and the noble Duke suld make settled accompts wi 'me; and ye may ken, by your ain experience, that I canna gang rowting like an unmannered Highland stot to their doors, as ye come to mine. "
The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801
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