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rut1    Audio Help   [ruht] Pronunciation Key, noun, verb, rut·ted, rut·ting.
–noun
1.a furrow or track in the ground, esp. one made by the passage of a vehicle or vehicles.
2.any furrow, groove, etc.
3.a fixed or established mode of procedure or course of life, usually dull or unpromising: to fall into a rut.
–verb (used with object)
4.to make a rut or ruts in; furrow.
[Origin: 1570–80; perh. var. of route]
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rut2    Audio Help   [ruht] Pronunciation Key, noun, verb, rut·ted, rut·ting.
–noun
1.the periodically recurring sexual excitement of the deer, goat, sheep, etc.
–verb (used without object)
2.to be in the condition of rut.
[Origin: 1375–1425; late ME rutte < MF rut, ruit < LL rugītus a roaring, equiv. to L rugī(re) to roar + -tus suffix of v. action]
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rut 1    Audio Help   (rŭt)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A sunken track or groove made by the passage of vehicles.
  2. A fixed, usually boring routine.

tr.v.   rut·ted, rut·ting, ruts
To furrow.


[Possibly alteration of route.]

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rut 2    Audio Help   (rŭt)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. An annually recurring condition or period of sexual excitement and reproductive activity in male deer.
  2. A condition or period of mammalian sexual activity, such as estrus.

intr.v.   rut·ted, rut·ting, ruts
To be in rut.


[Middle English rutte, from Old French rut, from Vulgar Latin *rūgitus, from *rūgere, to roar, from Latin rūgīre, to roar.]

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rutted

adjective
full of ruts; "rutty farm roads" 

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