This new book the whole world makes such a rout about. Sterne.

"My child, it is not well," I said,
"Among the graves to shout;
To laugh and play among the dead,
And make this noisy rout." Trench.

To rout out (a) To turn up to view, as if by rooting; to discover; to find. (b) To turn out by force or compulsion; as, to rout people out of bed. [Colloq.]

And ever he rode the hinderest of the route. Chaucer.

A rout of people there assembled were. Spenser.

the endless routs of wretched thralls. Spenser.

The ringleader and head of all this rout. Shak.

Nor do I name of men the common rout. Milton.

thy army . . .
Dispersed in rout, betook them all to fly. Daniel.

To these giad conquest, murderous rout to those. pope.

To put to rout, to defeat and throw into confusion; to overthrow and put to flight.

That party . . . that charged the Scots, so totally routed and defeated their whole army, that they fied. Clarendon.

Syn. -- To defeat; discomfit; overpower; overthrow.

In all that land no Christian[s] durste route. Chaucer.