Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Rout \Rout\, v. t. [A variant of root.]
   To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow.

   {To rout out}
   (a) To turn up to view, as if by rooting; to discover; to
       find.
   (b) To turn out by force or compulsion; as, to rout people
       out of bed. [Colloq.]