| noun | a groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels) |
| noun | a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape “they fell into a conversational rut” |
| noun | applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity |
| verb | be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals |
| verb | hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove “furrow soil” |
| rutty | adjective | full of ruts |
| rut | verb | hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove |
| estrous | adjective | (of lower mammals) showing or in a state of estrus; in heat |
| rut | noun | applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity |
| furrow | noun | a long shallow trench in the ground (especially one made by a plow) |
| groove | noun | a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record) |