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rouet

English

Etymology

French

Noun

rouet (plural rouets)

  1. (firearms, historical) A small wheel formerly fixed to the pan of firelocks for discharging them.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Crabb to this entry?)

Anagrams

  • Toure, outer, outre, outré, route, utero-

French

Etymology

From roue +? -et.

Noun

rouet m (plural rouets)

  1. spinning wheel

Further reading

  • “rouet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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roust

English

Etymology

1650s, variant of rouse, possibly influenced by rout.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?a?st/

Verb

roust (third-person singular simple present rousts, present participle rousting, simple past and past participle rousted)

  1. (transitive) to rout out of bed; to rouse
  2. To harass, to treat in a rough way.
  3. (transitive, slang) to arrest
  4. (transitive) to drive strongly

Synonyms

  • (rout out of bed): bring round, knock up; see also Thesaurus:awaken
  • (arrest): collar, nick, pinch

Translations

Noun

roust (plural rousts)

  1. A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)

Synonyms

  • roost, rost

References

Anagrams

  • Rusto, Stour, Tours, routs, stour, sutor, torus, tours

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