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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.