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Rut

noun

A groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels).

A settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape. Synonym: groove.

Applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity. Synonyms: estrus, heat, oestrus. Antonym: anestrus.

verb

(past & past part. rutted; pres. part. rutting)

Be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals.

Hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove. Synonyms: furrow, groove.

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"Rut" Quotes from Famous Books

... partisan. It reflected city life, the disputes of faction, and the personal quarrels of authors. The politics of the Great Rebellion had been of heroic proportions, and found fitting expression in song. Rut in the Revolution of 1688 the issues were constitutional and to be settled by the arguments of lawyers. Measures were in {165} question rather than principles, and there was little inspiration to the poet in Exclusion Bills and ...

— Brief History of English and American Literature • Henry A. Beers

... He was in a rut, both sides of which were hedged with "back work that had piled up on him." He had no desire, no ambition, no interest, except in Ruth and in making the ...

— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis

... Thy rich providence; For all Thy perfect processes of life; For the minute perfection of Thy work, Seen and unseen, in each remotest part; For faith, and works, and gentle charity; For all that makes for quiet in the world; For all that lifts man from his common rut; For all that knits the silken bond of peace; For all that lifts the fringes of the night, And lights the darkened corners of the earth; For every broken gate and sundered bar; For every wide-flung window of the soul; For that ...

— Bees in Amber - A Little Book Of Thoughtful Verse • John Oxenham

... is now in a rut which affords no room for the one-act play, and if vaudeville is an empty cradle for this branch of dramatic art, where shall we turn? The one-act play to-day has found refuge and encouragement in the experimental theatres, and among the amateurs. ...

— Washington Square Plays - Volume XX, The Drama League Series of Plays • Various

... proceeded on their journey to the other side of the forest, the verderers eating what Humphrey had brought for them as they walked along. It was a tedious and painful journey for the wounded man, who shrieked out when the cart was jolted by the wheel getting into a rut or hole; but there was no help for it, and he was very much exhausted when they arrived, which was not till past midnight. Corbould was then taken to his cottage and put on the bed, and another verderer sent for a surgeon: those who had been ...

— The Children of the New Forest • Captain Marryat

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