The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Rout \Rout\, v. t. [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.
[1913 Webster]
That party . . . that charged the Scots, so totally
routed and defeated their whole army, that they fied.
--Clarendon.
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Syn: To defeat; discomfit; overpower; overthrow.
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The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
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)