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▪ I. ˈrutting, vbl. n.
[f. rut v.3]
a. The fact of being in, or passing into, a state of (periodic) sexual excitement. Also fig.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 101 At the time of their lust or rutting, they are above measure fierce. 1608Shakes. Per. iv. v. 9, I'll do any thing now that is virtuous; but I am out of the road of rutting for ever. 1681T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 37 (1713) I. 244 Have you heard how the Whigs go a Rutting in the Country, as well as a Bulling in the City? 1749Fielding Tom Jones v. xi, Rutting (an uncouth phrase, by which the vulgar denote that gentle dalliance which..passes between lovers of the ferine kind). 1772Ann. Reg. ii. 100 Several people..make use of them for hunting wild deer, or for decoying them home, especially in the time of their rutting. 1847–9Todd Cycl. Anat. IV. 473/2 The period of rutting among most animals..is associated with the commencement of the warmer season. 1861Boner Forest Creatures 42 This..was merely a preparation for a later rutting, which took place in December.
b. attrib., as rutting call, rutting-part, rutting-season, rutting-sport, rutting-state, rutting-time, rutting-wrath; rutting-angles (see quot. 1834).
1576Turberv. Venerie 147 Then you may hunte them [sc. goats] vntill theyr Rutting time come. 1600Breton Pasquils Fooles-cappe Wks. (Grosart) I. 21/1 And cares not how, nor where she leaue the Ramme, When she hath gotten once the rutting parte. 1675Cotton Burlesque upon B. 61 With some Goddess hee would be at the Rutting sport. 1706–7Farquhar Beaux' Strat. v. iii, Ha! the very timorous stag will kill in rutting time. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1824) I. 383 Its excessive viciousness during the rutting season. 1825Jamieson Suppl. s.v. Ruttery, As brute animals, in the rutting state, run from place to place. 1834Jesse Glean. Nat. Hist. Ser. ii. 25 During a particular season the male mole makes what mole catchers call the rutting-angles. These are much larger than the usual runs. 1877J. A. Allen Amer. Bison 463 During the rutting season, the bulls often wage fierce battles. 1893Kipling Seven Seas (1896) 59 And when the first September gales have slaked their rutting-wrath, The great man-seal haul back to the sea. 1937Discovery Oct. 314/1 The rutting call of the stag.
▪ II. ˈrutting, ppl. a.
[f. rut v.3]
Given to rutting; in a state of rut.
1624Massinger Parl. of Love iv. v, Fie! you shame yourself, And the profession of your rutting gallants. 1891Athenæum 7 Feb. 186/3 A man pursued by a rutting elephant. 1896N. Munro Lost Pibroch (1902) 11 The rutting deer bellowed with loud throats. |