- a 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.
- the periodically recurring sexual excitement of the deer, goat, sheep, etc.
- to be in the condition of rut.
- 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)
- to make a rut or ruts in
- 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
- (of male ruminants) to be in a period of sexual excitement and activity