rout

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To dig with the snout; root.
• intransitive verb To poke around; rummage.
• intransitive verb To expose to view as if by digging; uncover.
• intransitive verb To hollow, scoop, or gouge out.
• intransitive verb To drive or force out as if by digging; eject.
• intransitive verb Archaic To dig up with the snout.
• intransitive verb To bellow. Used of cattle.
• noun A disorderly retreat or flight following defeat.
• noun An overwhelming defeat.
• noun A disorderly crowd of people; a mob.
• noun People of the lowest class; rabble.
• noun A public disturbance; a riot.
• noun A fashionable gathering.
• noun Archaic A group of people, especially knights, or of animals, especially wolves.
• transitive verb To put to disorderly flight or retreat.
• transitive verb To defeat overwhelmingly. synonym: defeat.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To make a noise; roar; bellow, as a bull or cow; snort, as a horse.
• . To snore.
• . To howl, as the wind; make a roaring noise.
• noun A loud noise; uproar; tumult.
• noun . Snoring. Chaucer (ed. Morris).
• noun A stunning blow.
• To turn up with the snout; root, as a hog: same as root, 1.
• In mech., to deepen; scoop out; cut out; dig out, as moldings, the spaces between and around block-letters, bookbinders' stamps, etc.
• To root; rummage or poke about.
• To collect together; assemble in a company.
• noun A defeat followed by confused or tumultuous retreat; disorderly flight caused by defeat, as of an army or any body of contestants; hence, any thorough repulse, overthrow, or discomfiture: as, to put an army to rout.
• noun A troop; a band; a company in general, either of persons or of animals; specifically, a pack of wolves; any irregular or casual aggregation of beings; a crowd.
• noun A disorderly or confused crowd of persons; a tumultuous rabble; used absolutely, the general or vulgar mass; the rabble.
• noun A large social assemblage; a general gathering of guests for entertainment; a crowded evening party.
• noun At common law, an assemblage of three or more persons breaking or threatening to break the peace; a company which is engaged in or has made some movement toward unlawful action.
• To extricate from (other things); hunt up; dig (out); with out.
• To put to rout; drive into disordered flight by defeat, as an armed force; hence, to defeat or repulse thoroughly; drive off or dispel, as something of an inimical character.
• To drive or force, as from a state of repose, concealment. or the like; urge or incite to movement or activity; hence, to draw or drag (forth or out): generally with out or up: as, to rout out a lot of intruders; to rout up a sleeper; to rout out a secret hoard or a recondite fact. See router-out.
• Synonyms Overwhelm, Overthrow, etc. See defeat.
• To crowd or be driven into a confused mass, as from panic following defeat, or from any external force.
• To start up hurriedly; turn out suddenly or reluctantly, as from a state of repose.
• noun See route.
• noun The brent or brant-goose, Bernicla brenta.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb Obs. or Scot. To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly.
• noun A bellowing; a shouting; noise; clamor; uproar; disturbance; tumult.
• transitive verb To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow.
• transitive verb [Colloq.] To turn out by force or compulsion; as, to rout people out of bed.
• intransitive verb To search or root in the ground, as a swine.
• transitive verb To break the ranks of, as troops, and put them to flight in disorder; to put to rout.
• intransitive verb obs. To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company.
• noun obsolete A troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng.
• noun A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people.