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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rout \Rout\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Routed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Routing}.] To break the ranks of, as troops, and put them to flight in disorder; to put to rout.
That party . . . that charged the Scots, so totally routed and defeated their whole army, that they fied. --Clarendon.
Syn: To defeat; discomfit; overpower; overthrow.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
routing /row'ting/ Using a kind of rotating cutting tool called a router, pronounced /row't*/. In the USA a {router}, pronounced /row't*/, is also a network device that performs "routing". In the UK, the network device is pronounced /roo't*/ and what it does is spelled "{routeing}". (2002-07-31)
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