"rut" Definition

Definitions for the word "rut" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
Sexual desire or oestrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the oestrus exists.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. See Rote.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. i.
To have a strong sexual impulse at the reproductive period; -- said of deer, cattle, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. t.
To cover in copulation.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
A track worn by a wheel or by habitual passage of anything; a groove in which anything runs. Also used figuratively.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
To make a rut or ruts in; -- chiefly used as a past participle or a participial adj.; as, a rutted road.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
1 deep track made by the passage of wheels. 2 established (esp. Tedious) practice or routine (in a rut). v. (-tt-) mark with ruts. [probably french: related to *route]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
8. n.
Periodic sexual excitement of a male deer etc. v. (-tt-) be affected with rut. [latin rugio roar]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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