rooter

Definition

One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots.

Etymology

From root + -er.

Example Sentences

• "The rooter was terrorized, what with the mechanical noises right behind it, and it abandoned evasive turns and darts and made for the horizon with pitiful desperation."
• "Juveniles arriving early tend to become rooters, while late arrivals are forced into stone-turning, having been chased away by the rooters."
• "Most rural farming families in the Big Thicket had “rooter hogs and woods cattle” roaming the free range around their homeplaces."