'Rut' definitions:
Definition of 'rut'
From: WordNet
noun
A groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels)
noun
A settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape; "they fell into a conversational rut" [syn: rut, groove]
noun
Applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity [syn: estrus, oestrus, heat, rut] [ant: anestrum, anestrus, anoestrum, anoestrus]
verb
Be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals
verb
Definition of 'Rut'
From: GCIDE
- Rut \Rut\, n. [F. rut, OF. ruit, L. rugitus a roaring, fr. rugire to roar; -- so called from the noise made by deer in rutting time.]
- 1. (Physiol.) Sexual desire or oestrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the oestrus exists. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. See Rote. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Rut'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Rut'
From: GCIDE
- Rut \Rut\, v. t. To cover in copulation. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Rut'
From: GCIDE
- Rut \Rut\, n. [variant of route.] A track worn by a wheel or by habitual passage of anything; a groove in which anything runs. Also used figuratively. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Rut'
From: GCIDE
- Rut \Rut\, v. t. To make a rut or ruts in; -- chiefly used as a past participle or a participial adj.; as, a rutted road. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'rut'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alameda,
- be in heat,
- beat,
- beaten path,
- beaten track,
- berm,
- bezel,
- bicycle path,
- boardwalk,
- bridle path,
- bureaucracy,
- bureaucratism,
- canal,
- canalize,
- carve,
- catwalk,
- chamfer,
- channel,
- chase,
- chink,
- chinoiserie,
- chisel,
- chuckhole,
- come in,
- corrugate,
- corrugation,
- crack,
- cranny,
- crimp,
- cut,
- dado,
- daily grind,
- desire,
- dike,
- ditch,
- engrave,
- engraving,
- esplanade,
- estral cycle,
- estruate,
- estruation,
- estrum,
- estrus,
- fastwalk,
- fever,
- fever heat,
- fever of excitement,
- fire,
- flute,
- fluting,
- foot pavement,
- footpath,
- footway,
- furrow,
- fury of lust,
- garden path,
- gash,
- goffer,
- gouge,
- grind,
- groove,
- gully,
- heat,
- hiking trail,
- incise,
- incision,
- itch for,
- jog trot,
- lust,
- lust after,
- mall,
- microgroove,
- mudhole,
- pace,
- parade,
- path,
- pathway,
- pitchhole,
- pleat,
- plow,
- pothole,
- prado,
- promenade,
- public walk,
- rabbet,
- red tape,
- red-tapeism,
- rifle,
- rifling,
- rote,
- round,
- routine,
- ruck,
- run,
- runway,
- score,
- scratch,
- sexual excitement,
- sidewalk,
- sinkhole,
- slit,
- squirrel cage,
- streak,
- stria,
- striate,
- striation,
- sulcation,
- sulcus,
- towing path,
- towpath,
- track,
- trail,
- treadmill,
- trench,
- trottoir,
- trough,
- walk,
- walkway,
- well-worn groove,
- wrinkle