RUT

vt to cover in copulation.

2. rut ·noun roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. ·see rote.

3. rut ·vi to have a strong sexual impulse at the reproductive period;

— said of deer, cattle, ·etc.

4. rut ·vt to make a rut or ruts in;

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

5. rut ·noun a track worn by a wheel or by habitual passage of anything; a groove in which anything runs. also used figuratively.

6. rut ·noun sexual desire or oestrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the oestrus exists.