[W/K] :: routing

  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.
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           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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  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)