rule the roast

English

Verb

rule the roast (third-person singular simple present rules the roast, present participle ruling the roast, simple past and past participle ruled the roast)

  1. Archaic form of rule the roost.

References
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
  • roast in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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