Obs. In 1 wrot, urot, uurot, 4–5 wrot, 5 wrotte, wroughte. [OE. wrót, = MLG. wrote (a mole), LG. wrote, wröte, WFlem. wroete (snout). Cf. next and WORT sb.3] The snout of a swine, etc.; a proboscis.
c. 725. Corpus Gloss. (Hessels), B 188. Bruncus, wrot.
a. 1100. Gloss., in Wr.-Wülcker, 118. Promuscida, ylpes bile, uel wrot.
a. 1325. Old Age, ii., in E. E. P. (1862), 149. Moch me anueþ þat mi dribil druiþ and mi wrot wet.
c. 1375. in Horstm., Altengl. Leg. (1875), 43. Þis bestes heore wrot to him gonne beode.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XIII. xxix. (Tollem. MS.). The sea swyne … piccheþ þe wrot [1535 snowte] in grauel. Ibid., XVIII. xlii. (Bodl. MS.). With his wrotte and snowte he wroteþ vp treen.
14[?]. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 587. Grunnus,… a gruyn, or a wrot.
