rootles

Verb

rootle (third-person singular simple present rootles, present participle rootling, simple past and past participle rootled)

1. to dig into the ground, with the snout.
   • Once, presumably, this quadrangle with its smooth lawns, its massive buildings, and the chapel itself was marsh too, where the grasses waved and the swine rootled.1929, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 11
2. to search for something from a drawer, closet, etc.; to dig out.
   • 'There's a tin of cocoa in my study somewhere,' Perowne shouted after him. 'Rootle round till you find it, and take it up.'1908, Rudyard Kipling, Regulus