Rut has 9 different meanings across 2 categories:
Noun
· Verb
Noun
1
a groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels)
2
a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape
"they fell into a conversational rut"
3
applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity
4
Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals.
5
A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road.
Verb
1
be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals
2
hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove
"furrow soil"
3
To be in the annual rut or mating season.
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