sexual desire or oestrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the oestrus exists.-roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. see rote.-to have a strong sexual impulse at the reproductive period; -- said of deer, cattle, etc.-to cover in copulation.-a track worn by a wheel or by habitual passage of anything; a groove in which anything runs. also used figuratively.-to make a rut or ruts in; -- chiefly used as a past participle or a participial adj.; as, a rutted road.