Rut

Rut

(1):

(n.) Sexual desire or oestrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the oestrus exists.

(2):

(n.) Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. See Rote.

(3):

(n.) A track worn by a wheel or by habitual passage of anything; a groove in which anything runs. Also used figuratively.

(4):

(v. t.) To cover in copulation.

(5):

(v. i.) To have a strong sexual impulse at the reproductive period; - said of deer, cattle, etc.

(6):

(v. t.) To make a rut or ruts in; - chiefly used as a past participle or a participial adj.; as, a rutted road.