Definition of "rootling" []

• Present participle of rootle. (verb)
• A small or miniature root; a rootlet. (noun)
• A plantling just beginning to root. (noun)

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• "Sawdays, the guidebook publisher that specialises in rootling out special places to stay, is about to launch Dog-friendly Breaks in Britain £14.99, sawdays.co.uk."
• "I normally find them rootling in the reeds along Carleton Beck, and in this post-Christmas soft spell it makes me want to clench my fist and wave it at the heavens as a salute to their winter survival."
• "There is nothing to stop me – or a Wada patrol, or one of the French television crews who like to do this kind of thing – popping in and rootling around in search of incriminating performance-enhancing stuff."