A rooting-up fruit trees to clear a space for weeds.
"To-morrow?"
Victoria Cross
I'm rooting for your mom, sure, but that's a Nobel Prize in itself, right there.
"Syndrome"
Thomas Hoover
Round the house is the home-field, generally the orchard, sown with timothy-grass, where range four or five young calves, and a sow or two, with their hungry, rooting youngsters.
"Two Years in Oregon"
Wallis Nash