rut

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  1. noun A sunken track or groove made by the passage of vehicles.
  2. noun A fixed, usually boring routine.
  3. transitive verb To furrow.
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rut:   ruts
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  1. Possibly alteration of route.
  2. Middle English rutte, from Old French rut, from Vulgar Latin *rūgitus, from *rūgere, to roar, from Latin rūgīre, to roar.

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  1. Formerly also rutt; wïth shortened vowel, from Middle English rute, route, from Old French route, way, path, street, trace, track, etc., from Middle Latin rupta, a way, path: see route, the same word, partly adapted to the modern F. form route.
  2. from rut, n.
  3. Formerly also rutt; from Middle English *rut, ruit, from Old French ruit, rut, a roaring, the noise of deer, etc., at the time of sexual excitement, rut, French rut, rut, = Spanish ruido = Portuguese rugído = Italian ruggito, a roaring, bellowing, from Latin rugitus, a roaring as of lions, a rumbling, from rugire (later Italian ruggire = Provencal Spanish Portuguese rugir = Old French ruir, French rugir), roar, from √ ru, make a noise, Sanskrit √ ru, hum, bray: see rumor. In the literally sense (‘a roaring’) the word appears to have merged in rout, rote.
  4. from Middle English rutien, rutyen; from rut, n.
 

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