meaning of rut
1. 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.
3. To have a strong sexual impulse at the reproductive period; -- said of deer, cattle, etc.
4. To cover in copulation.
5. A track worn by a wheel or by habitual passage of anything; a groove in which anything runs. Also used figuratively.
6. To make a rut or ruts in; -- chiefly used as a past participle or a participial adj. ; as, a rutted road.
7. a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape; "they fell into a conversational
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Related Words
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