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rootled
vb. (en-past of: rootle)
Usage examples of "rootled".
Swearing to himself and wreathed in cobwebs he rootled through the coalhole until he found a quarter-full tin of the paint that had been flown in from Germany and used for the mutilated white wall.
I sniffed and rootled around down there for at least ten minutes, and got in several good licks and kisses.