Roust \Roust\ (roust), v. t. To rouse; to disturb; as, to roust one out. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]
Roust \Roust\, n. [Cf. Icel. r["o]st an estuary.] A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel. [Written also {rost}, and {roost}.] --Jamieson.
But the pinnipeds may soon face eviction as officials renew their fight to roust the mammals.
Patrols don't roust amorous young couples out of park bushes here as they do in neighboring Malaysia, where government-sanctioned Islamic zealotry is part of its goal of lifting Moslem ethnic Malays to the economic level of ethnic Chinese.
Five nights a week, a team of transit police roust the homeless from their dens.