Hut vs Rut - What's the difference?

hut | rut |

As nouns the difference between hut and rut

is that hut is a small wooden shed while rut is sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals.

is that hut is to put into a hut while rut is to be in the annual rut.

(en noun)

a small wooden shed

a primitive dwelling

(hutt)

(rare, archaic, transitive) to put into a hut

to hut troops in winter quarters

(rare, archaic, intransitive) to take shelter in a hut

* Washington Irving

The troops hutted among the heights of Morristown.

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From (etyl) .

(en noun)

(zoology) Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals

Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.

to be in the annual rut

to have sexual intercourse

To mount or cover during copulation.

(Dryden)

16th century. Probably from (etyl) route ‘road’

(en noun)

A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road

A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling (See also rutter)

A dull routine

Dull job, no interests, no dates. He's really in a rut .

(rutt)

To make a furrow