n. A fixed or unchanging round, as in learning or reciting something; mechanical routine in learning, or in the repetition of that which has been learned; exact memorizing, or reproduction from memory, as of words or sounds, with or without attention to their significance: chiefly in the phrase by rote.n. A part mechanically committed to memory.n. A row or rank.To learn by rote or by heart.To repeat from memory.To rotate; change by rotation.n. A musical instrument with strings, and played either by a bow, like a crowd or fiddle, or by a wheel, like a hurdy-gurdy. See crowd. Also called rota.An obsolete dialectal form of rout.n. The sound of surf, as before a storm.n. A Middle English form of root.A Middle English form of root.