v. Now dial. Also 7 wroxe, 9 dial. rox. [Of obscure origin.]
1. trans. To cause to decay or rot.
1649. Blithe, Eng. Improver, vi. 34. So cut the Turfe, that the Soard may have all the Winters frost to wroxe, and moulder it. Ibid., xx. 119. For your Horse Dung … let it be but well Wroxed or Roten.
2. intr. To decay, rot. dial.
1847. Halliwell, Wrox, to begin to decay. Warw.
1854–1890. in dial. glossaries (Nhp., Leics., Warw., Gloucs.), s.v. Rox.
