Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

         That party . . . that charged the Scots, so totally
         routed and defeated their whole army, that they fied.
                                                  --Clarendon.

   Syn: To defeat; discomfit; overpower; overthrow.

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

routed
     
         /root dee/ Route Daemon.  A program which runs
        under {4.2BSD} {Unix} systems and derivatives to propagate
        routes among machines on a {local area network}, using the
        {Routing Information Protocol}.  See also {gated}.
     
        (2002-07-31)