Meaning

Imprinted with ruts..

Definitions by Sense

1. Imprinted with ruts.
2. (US, dated) In a rut (dull routine).
3. Related to a rut; being in a state of sexual arousal.
4. (obsolete) Full of roots.
5. (India, obsolete) A unit of weight used for metals, precious stones and medicines, equivalent to 1+¹⁄₂ grains.

Example Sentences

a rutty country road

But I’m oblig’d each day to roam Many a furlong from my home, And cry, good luck, whene’er I pick From off the ground a single stick; Or, in some long and rutty lane, I find by chance a single grain.

[…] old acquaintances separated by long rutty distances, or cooled acquaintances separated by misunderstandings concerning runaway calves […]

We drove way out to the desert the other side of town and turned on a rutty dirt road that made the car bounce as never before.

Constantly vary your way of doing things; avoid humdrum, rutty, and monotonous ways.

Everywhere we see men who have gone to seed early, become rutty and uninteresting, because they worked too much and played too little.

We get lazy, then the church becomes rutty.

I am lying here stifling in the rutty goat smell

Word Forms

• ruttier
• ruttiest
• rutties
• ruttys
• ruttees

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