Rut

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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

2. Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. See Rote.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To cover in copulation. Dryden.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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