rote

A medieval stringed instrument variably identified with a lyre, lute, or harp.

A memorizing process using routine or repetition, often without full attention or comprehension.

Mechanical routine.

The sound of surf breaking on the shore.

To learn by rote or by heart.

To repeat from memory.

To rotate; change by rotation.

A fixed or unchanging round, as in learning or reciting something; mechanical routine in learning, or in the repetition of that which has been learned; exact memorizing, or reproduction from memory, as of words or sounds, with or without attention to their significance: chiefly in the phrase by rote.

A part mechanically committed to memory.

A row or rank.