noun Mechanical routine; a fixed, habitual, repetitive, or mechanical course of procedure.
The pastoral scenes from those commercials don’t bear too much resemblance to the rote of daily life on a farm.
adjective By repetition or practice and without much thought.
verb To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.
verb To learn or repeat by rote.
[Volumnia to Corolianus] "Because that it lies you on to speak/ to th' people, not by your own instruction,/ Nor by th' matter which your heart prompts you,/ But with such words that are but roted in/ your tongue,..." Coriolanus III.ii.52-55
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noun A kind of guitar, the notes of which were produced by a small wheel or wheel-like arrangement; an instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.