vbl. sb. Obs. [f. WROOT v. + -ING1.] The action of grubbing or rooting; the result of this, the furrow made by a pig rooting.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 147. [Curatis] resten as mold-warpis in wrotynge of worldly worschipe & erþely goodis.
1379. Glouc. Cath. MS. 19, No. 1, 1. iii. fol. 6 b. Scrophula ys a sore that is lyke a swynes wrotynge.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 534/2. Wrotynge, of beestys, versio. Wrotynge, of a swyne, scrobs.
1491. Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889), 333. Whate with wrotyng and tredyng of the saide bestes [sc. swine].
1532. More, Confut. Tindale, Wks. 586/1. We must yoke them for breking hedges, and ringe them for wroting.
