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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

... all!" laughed Rayne as he pulled at his cigar. "I don't like to see you in this rut of hotels. It's bad for you! It only leads to drinks in the bar till late and bad headaches in the morning. You must buck up and get ...

— The Golden Face - A Great 'Crook' Romance • William Le Queux

... is little to show that diplomacy has been raised to a higher plane or has won a better reputation in the world at large than it possessed before the nations assembled at Paris to make peace. This failure to lift the necessary agency of international relations out of the rut worn deep by centuries of practice is one of the deplorable consequences of the peace negotiations. So much might have been done; nothing ...

— The Peace Negotiations • Robert Lansing

... principle was almost universal. This continued, in a measure, even after the establishment of Christianity, and we find phallic rites masquerading in the garb of Christian observances as late as the sixteenth century in parts of Russia and Hungary. Westermarck, in his chapter on the human rut season in primitive times, says: "Writers of the sixteenth century speak of the existence of certain festivals in Russia, at which great license prevailed. According to Pamphil, these annual gatherings ...

— Religion and Lust - or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire • James Weir

... the cross-road; the way became frightfully bad; the cart lurched from one rut to the other; he said ...

— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo

... pointed far up the giant rut of the stream to where a streak of white water twinkled at the foot of the hills. "We've struck the river too ...

— The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories • Owen Wister

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