Rut

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  • noun. A sunken track or groove made by the passage of vehicles.
  • noun. An uninspired routine or pattern of behavior that one continues unthinkingly or because change is difficult.
  • transitive verb. To make ruts in (a path, for example).
  • noun. A regularly recurring condition of fertility during which breeding occurs in certain mammals, especially deer and various other ungulates.
  • noun. The period during which this condition occurs.
  • intransitive verb. To be in rut.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A roaring noise; uproar.
  • noun. The noise made by deer at the time of sexual excitement; hence, the periodical sexual excitement or heat of animals; the period of heat.
  • To be in heat; desire copulation.
  • To copulate with.
  • noun. A narrow track worn or cut in the ground; especially, the hollow track made by a wheel in passing over the ground.
  • noun. A wrinkle.
  • noun. Any beaten path or mode of procedure; an established habit or course.
  • To mark with or as with ruts; trace furrows in; also, to wrinkle: as, to rut the earth with a spade, or with cart-wheels.
  • An obsolete or dialectal form of rout.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A track worn by a wheel or by habitual passage of anything; a groove in which anything runs. Also used figuratively.
  • transitive verb. To cover in copulation.
  • noun. Sexual desire or œstrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the œstrus exists.
  • noun. Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. See Rote.
  • transitive verb. To make a rut or ruts in; -- chiefly used as a past participle or a participial adj..
  • intransitive verb. To have a strong sexual impulse at the reproductive period; -- said of deer, cattle, etc.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals
  • verb. to be in the annual rut
  • verb. to have sexual intercourse
  • noun. A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road
  • noun. A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling (See also rutter)
  • noun. A dull routine
  • verb. To make a furrow
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity
  • noun. a groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels)
  • noun. a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape
  • verb. be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals
  • verb. hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove
  • Word Usage
    "Here in west central indiana the deer arnt very active yet and there arnt many corn fields that have been picked yet but its gettn cooler and the rut is about a week off so im huntin feild edges the deer gotta leave the corn sometime there aint no ponds or cricks in the feilds to drink from"
    Form
    rutted  rutting  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    be  channel  cut into  delve  dig  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Hutt  Knut  abut  but  butt  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bog  boulder  bump  cleft  clod  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    rote  rutted  rutting  
    verb-form
    ruts  rutted  rutting