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Rut vs Runt - What's the difference?

rut | runt |

As a proper noun rut

is , cognate to ruth.

As a noun runt is

the smallest animal of a litter, or,.

rut

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (zoology) Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals
  • Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.

    • Verb

  • to be in the annual rut
  • to have sexual intercourse
  • To mount or cover during copulation.
    • (Dryden)

    Etymology 2

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

    Noun

    (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 .

    Verb

    (rutt)
  • To make a furrow

    • Anagrams

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    runt

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The smallest animal of a litter, or,
  • The smallest child in the family, as in "the runt of the family."
  • Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person.
  • (computing) An Ethernet packet that does not meet the medium's minimum packet size of 64 bytes.
  • (typography) A single word (or portion of a hyphenated word) that appears as the last line of a paragraph.
  • A breed of pigeon related to the carrier pigeon.
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) A hardened stem or stalk of a plant.
    • (Halliwell)
    Neither young poles nor old runts are durable. — Holland.

    Anagrams

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