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Putter vs Rutter - What's the difference?

putter | rutter |

As a verb putter

is (label) to be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks.

As a noun putter

is who puts or places or putter can be (golf) a golf club specifically intended for a putt.

As a proper noun rutter is

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putter

English

Etymology 1

Alteration of

Verb

(en verb)
  • (label) To be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks.
  • *, chapter=13
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time. 'Twas locked, of course, but the Deacon man got a big bunch of keys out of his pocket and commenced to putter with the lock.}}

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • who puts or places.
  • One who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine.

    • Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (golf) A golf club specifically intended for a putt.
  • (golf) A person who is taking a putt or putting.

    • See also

    * shot-putter English heteronyms ----

    rutter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thing that ruts.
  • A tool used in peat cutting.
  • A guide who leads the way through a difficult or unknown course.
  • A pilot book or seaman's guide carried by navigators in the Middle Ages; a precursor to the modern navigation chart.
  • (obsolete) A horseman or trooper.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • Such a regiment of rutters / Never defied men braver.

    See also

    * Rut

    Anagrams

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