ruttedadj.

1607 G. Markham Cavelarice iv. ix. 52 If you cannot finde such a rutted way because for the most part they are proper but only to clay groundes, it shal not be amisse then if you get such a straight path or furrowe..and therein ride your horse being tramelled euerie day.

1795 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 148/1 O'er the dark heath—through rutted lanes I've neigh'd, And bore in safety home my drowsy load.

1823 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 647 Over the rutted road the empty wane Homewards is driven.

1845 New Monthly Mag. 74 ii. 121 Light diet,..long marches, and a burning sun during he greater part of the year..leave nothing behind but a rigid and rutted face, and a skeleton corded with muscles.

1846 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters (ed. 3) I. 98 The painter is evidently embarrassed without his rutted road..and his boggy pool.

1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner iii. 40 Raveloe lay low among the bushy trees and the rutted lanes.

1913 E. F. Benson Thorley Weir i. 22 The gleaming romance and glory that lie so close below the surface of the most routined and rutted life.

1957 G. Ryle in C. A. Mace Brit. Philos. in Mid-Cent. 259 Equations are not mere records of deeply rutted associations of ideas.

1983 S. Cooper Seaward xi. 95 Westerly pounded after him, down the rutted earthen path along the riverbank.

2004 Global Nov.–Dec. 84/1 Set just above the instep of Italy's ‘boot’, Matera is far removed from Italy's most heavily rutted tourist routes, in one of its poorest regions.