rootle

Etymology
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Verb

 * 1) (of an animal) to dig into the ground, with the snout.
 * 2) * 1929, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 11
 * 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.
 * 1) (of a person) to search for something from a drawer, closet, etc.; to dig out.
 * 1) (of a person) to search for something from a drawer, closet, etc.; to dig out.