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

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)