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Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals.
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The noise made by deer during sexual excitement.
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Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.
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A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road.
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A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling.
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A dull routine.
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Dull job, no interests, no dates. He's really in a rut.
Examples of ruts in a Sentence
The saturated road no longer absorbed the water, which ran along the ruts in streams.
Following a long drive that consisted of little more than two ruts worn by vehicle tires, they came to the Marsh ranch.
As we climb the escarpment onto the plateau the dirt road degenerates into a couple of wheel ruts.
Their minds have been formed by very narrow (tho voluminous in quantity) reading and the ruts of their mental pathways are deep.
Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels.
In the meantime, make sure tresses are well taken care of and rely on hair accessories to break any grow out ruts.
Sometimes, women can get stuck in style ruts and are afraid to change, but by learning which styles flatter you most, you can get excited about fashion.
They may also find themselves frustrated by the ruts they create by giving in to every whim of the child.
She was on the washboard ruts before she realized they were there.
They left the main road on a narrow trail consisting of two ruts.
As he maneuvered the truck through muddy ruts in the drive, she covertly studied his profile.
The route was in a poor state of repair with deep ruts and was often extremely muddy in wet weather.
A big push next before they hit the muddy ruts and splashed out in the stream.
The M5 into Devon has ruts in it like a farm track - especially up the hills.
It's a long section, starting with some very muddy ruts, then climbing through a tree lined gully.
The scale of activity is indicated by the presence of cart ruts leading into the excavated rubbish pits.
Deep ruts and "cradle-holes" were worn in the ice, as on terra firma, by the passage of the sleds over the same track, and the horses invariably ate their oats out of cakes of ice hollowed out like buckets.
Meeting a comrade at the last post station but one before Moscow, Denisov had drunk three bottles of wine with him and, despite the jolting ruts across the snow-covered road, did not once wake up on the way to Moscow, but lay at the bottom of the sleigh beside Rostov, who grew more and more impatient the nearer they got to Moscow.
We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins.
Two years later, the ruts left by a light, two-wheeled Bronze Age cart were found nearby at Welland Bank Quarry.
It 's a long section, starting with some very muddy ruts, then climbing through a tree lined gully.
Deep ruts in the surface of the road show the result of many years of traffic.
On poor road surfaces the supple suspension comes into its own, soaking up ruts.
It may be supposed that originally the public roads, when worn by the cartage of the coal, were repaired by laying planks of timber at the bottom of the ruts, and that then the planks were laid on the surface of special roads or ways' formed between the collieries and the river.
Carts made big ruts in the roads from the brakes on them.
How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!