rote3 (rot)

[ Wel couthe he synge and pleyen on a rote . Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 236. There were two sets of instruments in the middle ages very similar to each other, the one played with the fingers, the other with a bow. The term Rote may perhaps have been applied to both cla es. W. K. Sullivan , Introd. to O'Curry's Anc. Irish, p. ii. rote4t, v . i . An obsolete dialectal form of rout1 . rote (rot), n. [A dial. var. of rout1 or rut2 .] The sound of surf, as before a storm. [Local, Eng. and U. S.] Then all amaz'd shriekes out confused cries, While the seas rote doth ring their doleful knell. Mir. for Mags . (England's Eliza, st. 270), II. 895. I hear the sea very strong and loud at the north. They call this the rote or rut of the sea. D. Webster , Private Correspondence (ed. Fletcher Web[ster), II. 262. rote The rote of the surf on Menimsha Bight Murmurs its warning. Walter Mitchell, In the Vineyard Sound, Harper's Weekly, [XXXIV. 743. Within sound of the rote of the sea. Stedman , Poets of America, p. 224.