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  • noun Plural form of rut.

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Examples

  • Looks like the second ruts is kicking in around my home in the lower piedmont now.

    Weekly Rut Report 2009

  • To avoid getting hung up on the log, approach it at an angle and roll over it one wheel at a time. this method works well on deep rain ruts, too.

    Tip of the Day: Riding Over Logs Cassandra 2009

  • Looks like the second ruts is kicking in around my home in the lower piedmont now.

    Weekly Rut Report 2009

  • Look for traction-robbing problems like rain ruts and loose shale.

    How to safely tackle steep grades on a quad 2007

  • So, normally I don't actually "choose" my reading material, but sometimes it's even better that way, as I tend to get in ruts of reading the same author (* cough* Kerouac * cough*.)

    Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: July, 1998 2005

  • So, normally I don't actually "choose" my reading material, but sometimes it's even better that way, as I tend to get in ruts of reading the same author (* cough* Kerouac * cough*.)

    Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: July 2005 Archives 2005

  • We crossed an awful serra all in ruts, and full of scarped rock, mud-holes, or atoleiros; the highest point was four thousand two hundred feet.

    The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton William Henry Burton Wilkins 1897

  • If we are inside each other's heads eternally then we had better get rolling and stop worrying about all the so called ruts in the road.

    Paint Can Darryl Price 2011

  • I think another way of casting the problem is to flip the perspective: how often do players get into "ruts" that eventually lead them to places in the game-world space that they either don't like or get bored of?

    The future? 2007

  • But, although "ruts" may often mean a comfortable existence, they are the end of all progress.

    Over the Fireside with Silent Friends Richard King 1913

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