Definition of "rootled" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of rootle. (verb)

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• "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."
• "Hence the libraries and laboratories; the observatories; the splendid equipment of costly and delicate instruments which now stands on glass shelves, where centuries ago the grasses waved and the swine rootled."
• "Dropping the clipboard, she rootled through the drawer."