Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A direction for the road or course, especially for a course by sea.
- noun A trooper; a dragoon; specifically, a mercenary horse-soldier in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
- noun A dashing gallant; a man of fashion.
- noun One that ruts.
- noun A form of plow for cutting ruts in a logging-road for the runners of the sleds to run in.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A horseman or trooper.
- noun That which ruts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A thing that
ruts . - noun A tool used in
peat cutting. - noun A guide who leads the way through a difficult or unknown course.
- noun A pilot book or seaman's guide carried by navigators in the Middle Ages; a precursor to the modern navigation chart.
Etymologies
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Examples
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That breathtaking span is one reason the Norton Anthology feels less like a book and more like a magic carpet ride through time and space, with Stavans 'hand on the rutter, introducing every author with a crisply written biography, explaining every political and cultural reference with an ongoing series of footnotes.
Joshua Kors: Ilan Stavans' Magnum Opus: After 13 Years, 'The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature' Is Here Joshua Kors 2010
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After watching that trailer I'm convinced I've watched the whole film. phil rutter this looks like the standard friday night multiplex schlock.
Repo Men Red Band Trailer and Poster: This Ain’t Alex Cox’s Vision of the Repo Life | /Film 2009
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Thank you…Lisa Byard-Norfolk, VA rotto rutter ralf
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NGUYEN: So that rutter, that metal clip on the rutter that broke off is not a problem?
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O'BRIEN: There you have it. -- the rutter and we were saying how it spread apart to give it an air brake effect.
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I was eating some almond rutter nut butter with a smidgeon of local honey and hence asking.
Never talk to the police without an attorney | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008
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The map is part of an 86-page book of 16th century sailing directions, published in French and known as a routier, or rutter.
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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The map is part of an 86-page book of 16th century sailing directions, published in French and known as a routier, or rutter.
Mariners' map that shaped Scotland set to fetch GBP 30,000 2007
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In a bed, well lit by candlelight, Maria was not the fierce and dimly seen rutter she had been in the bottom of a gondola, lit by nothing more than a crescent moon.
The Shadow Of The Lion Lackey, Mercedes 2002
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Reuter, a trooper, which has given the sixteenth-century Eng. rutter, but not as a surname.
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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