rut
1a furrow or track in the ground, especially one made by the passage of a vehicle or vehicles.
any furrow, groove, etc.
a fixed or established mode of procedure or course of life, usually dull or unpromising: to fall into a rut.
to make a rut or ruts in; furrow.
Origin of rut
1Other definitions for rut (2 of 2)
the periodically recurring sexual excitement of the deer, goat, sheep, etc.
to be in the condition of rut.
Origin of rut
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How to use rut in a sentence
Feeding ourselves is a thing we all have to do at least a few times a day, and especially in a year when so many of us have cooked ourselves into a rut, a little motivational challenge might just be your way out.
How Goal-Oriented Cooking Can Cure Your Kitchen Boredom | Missy Frederick | February 1, 2021 | EaterA chicken and pea traybake from Nigella, perfect blueberry muffins from Bon Appétit, and more It’s week trazillion-and-four of pandemic cooking, and you’ve hit a rut.
The Best Recipes to Cook This Week, According to Eater Staffers Who Actually Cooked Them | Eater Staff | January 29, 2021 | EaterWith its big wheels, navigating parking-lot ruts is a nonissue.
As a fan of simple routines for mental health, the prospect of making hoshigaki was enough to lure me out of my kitchen rut.
As shadows fall and flesh goads, we all but hear the frenzied rutting amid the sirens.
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It went very badly with [bleep],” says Banon, half laughing as she compares him to a “rutting chimpanzee.
Three Women to Decide IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's Sexual-Assault Case | Christopher Dickey | May 17, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTThis comes of rutting; Are we made stales to one another?Din.
The Little French Lawyer | Francis BeaumontI do not extend conjecture to a period when "our human or half-human ancestors" may hare had a rutting season, like stags.
The Secret of the Totem | Andrew LangIt was scarce daylight when I took my weapons and went to pay another visit to the rutting stags, John accompanying me.
The Backwoodsman | VariousThe rutting season over, he has no further use for his antlers until the next autumn, and they drop off.
Cruisings in the Cascades | George O. ShieldsAfter a time the ram has to perform his functions repeatedly during a few days, as great numbers of the ewes are rutting.
Schenk's Theory: The Determination of Sex | Samuel Leopold Schenk
British Dictionary definitions for rut (1 of 2)
/ (rʌt) /
a groove or furrow in a soft road, caused by wheels
any deep mark, hole, or groove
a narrow or predictable way of life, set of attitudes, etc; dreary or undeviating routine (esp in the phrase in a rut)
(tr) to make a rut or ruts in
Origin of rut
1British Dictionary definitions for rut (2 of 2)
/ (rʌt) /
a recurrent period of sexual excitement and reproductive activity in certain male ruminants, such as the deer, that corresponds to the period of oestrus in females
another name for oestrus
(intr) (of male ruminants) to be in a period of sexual excitement and activity
Origin of rut
2Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with rut
see in a rut.
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