rutty

Imprinted with ruts.

a rutty country road

But I’m oblig’d each day to roam Many a furlong from my home, And cry, good luck, whene’er I pick From off the ground a single stick; Or, in some long and rutty lane, I find by chance a single grain.

In a rut (dull routine).

Constantly vary your way of doing things; avoid humdrum, rutty, and monotonous ways.

Everywhere we see men who have gone to seed early, become rutty and uninteresting, because they worked too much and played too little.

Related to a rut; being in a state of sexual arousal.

I am lying here stifling in the rutty goat smell

You may even get picked up by a German soldier. They’re a rutty bunch now that they’re away from their fat frauleins and meeting some real French women.

Full of roots.

[…] the shoare of siluer streaming Themmes, Whose rutty Bancke, the which his Riuer hemmes, Was paynted all with variable flowers,

[…] whistling reeds, that rutty Iordan laues, And with their verdure his white head embraues, To chide the windes,

A unit of weight used for metals, precious stones and medicines, equivalent to 1+¹⁄₂ grains.

[…] they immediately desired to capitulate, and sent him, by way of ransom, a perfect diamond weighing two hundred and twenty four ruttys […]

1858, Henry Yule, Narrative of the Mission … to the Court of Ava, London: Smith, Elder, Appendix, “Note on Metals, Minerals, &c., of Burma,” p. 348, [Sapphires] of ten to fifteen rutties without a flaw are common, whereas a perfect ruby of that size is hardly ever seen.