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Rut   /rət/   Listen
noun
Rut  n.  
1.
(Physiol.) Sexual desire or oestrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the oestrus exists.
2.
Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. See Rote.


Rut  n.  A track worn by a wheel or by habitual passage of anything; a groove in which anything runs. Also used figuratively.


verb
Rut  v. t.  To cover in copulation.


Rut  v. t.  To make a rut or ruts in; chiefly used as a past participle or a participial adj.; as, a rutted road.


Rut  v. i.  (past & past part. rutted; pres. part. rutting)  To have a strong sexual impulse at the reproductive period; said of deer, cattle, etc.





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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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