Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
rutter .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A chart of a course, esp. at sea.
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- noun obsolete A
chart of acourse , especially atsea .
Etymologies
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Examples
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We agreed on the price, which was a couple of dollars, and we followed José for about an hour on an even ruttier dirt road out into the absolute middle of nowhere.
Full Frontal Nudity Harry Hamlin 2010
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He particularly describes it in the manuscript just cited, which Hakluyt had before him, as the ruttier of Alfonse which he publishes is found in that manuscript.
The Voyage of Verrazzano A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America Henry Cruse Murphy 1846
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It is found in the cosmography in connection with the ruttier before mentioned
The Voyage of Verrazzano A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America Henry Cruse Murphy 1846
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You ask him to show you the chart of it, now, and see if he don’t tell you over the ruttier as well as Drake himself.”
Westward Ho! 2007
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You ask him to show you the chart of it, now, and see if he don't tell you over the ruttier as well as Drake himself. "
Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847
Gammerstang commented on the word ruttier
(noun) - (1) An old traveler acquainted with roads; from route, French routier.
--Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828
(2) A set of instructions for finding one's course at sea; a marine guide to the routes, tides, etc.
--Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1909
January 14, 2018