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Rut

noun

A groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels).

A settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape. Synonym: groove.

Applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity. Synonyms: estrus, heat, oestrus.

verb

(past & past part. rutted; pres. part. rutting)

Be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals.

Hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove. Synonyms: furrow, groove.

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"Rut" Quotes from Famous Books

... twenty-two. But Harriet always saw behind Richard Carter, the years that had made him, the patient, straightforward, hard-working clerk who had been sober, and true, and intelligent enough to lift himself out of the common rut long before the golden secret that lay at the heart of the Carter Asbestos Company had flashed upon him. Money had not spoiled Richard; he still held wealth in respect, while Ward ordered his racing car, and Nina yawned over twelve-dollar ...

— Harriet and the Piper - (Norris Volume XI) • Kathleen Norris

... possible those chaps deceived us on purpose?" I jerked out between chattering teeth, as the car sprang from one three-foot rut into another, ...

— The Car of Destiny • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... would! But you have got too far out of the right rut, I fear. Too much over-civilization, and the deceitfulness of riches. It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. More's the pity. I never came across but two of you who could value a man wholly and solely for what was in him—who ...

— Tom Brown's Schooldays • Thomas Hughes

... Baldo and Chando were allowed to walk about the village as they pleased, and nibble at anybody's hay or grass, and splash in anybody's pond, and wallow in anybody's ditch, rut, or mire. ...

— The Wonders of the Jungle - Book One • Prince Sarath Ghosh

... does lighten my labor, that's a fact," admitted Aunt 'Mira. "He use ter do a-many things for me, years ago. Oh, yes! Your Uncle Jason warn't allus like he is now. But we got kinder in a rut I 'xpec'. An' I ain't young and good-lookin' like I use ter be, an' that makes a ...

— Janice Day at Poketown • Helen Beecher Long

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