Rut

·vt To cover in copulation.

II. Rut ·noun Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. ·see Rote.

III. Rut ·vi To have a strong sexual impulse at the reproductive period;

— said of deer, cattle, ·etc.

IV. Rut ·vt To make a rut or ruts in;

— chiefly used as a past participle or a participial ·adj; as, a rutted road.

V. Rut ·noun A track worn by a wheel or by habitual passage of anything; a groove in which anything runs. Also used figuratively.

VI. Rut ·noun Sexual desire or oestrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the oestrus exists.