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▪ I. ˈruttier Now arch.
Also 5– rutter, 6 ruter.
[ad. F. routier, f. route route n.]
A set of instructions for finding one's course at sea; a marine guide to the routes, tides, etc. Cf. routier.
αa1500(title), The Booke of the Sea Carte called the Rutter, which sheweth ye tydes, courses, kennynges,..aboute the whole Ile of Brytanye. 1561Eden Arte Nauig. Pref. ⁋⁋i, Without any Rutter or Carde of Nauigation. 1594Blundevil Exerc., Art Navig. lv. (1597) 353 Whose Tables touching the tydes are called Rutters. Ibid., I would wish such general Rutter to be made in maner of an Alphabet. 1937Geogr. Jrnl. XC. 386 It appears that there were existing rutters up to this point. 1962[see routier1]. 1971S. E. Morison European Discovery Amer.: Northern Voy. v. 138 The rutters (routiers), unofficial coast pilots of the period [sc. the sixteenth century], were written primarily for finding one's way along European shores. 1973D. Divine Opening of World v. 85 An English Rutter, the northern and slightly less refined version of the portolano, describing a harbour entrance in 1295.
β1600Hakluyt Voy. III. 719 A ruttier or course to be kept for him that will sayle from Cabo Verde to the coast of Brasil. 1611Cotgr., Routier,..a Ruttier; a directorie for the knowledge, or finding out of courses, whether by sea or land. 1802in James Milit. Dict. 1855Kingsley Westw. Ho! i, See if he don't tell you over the ruttier as well as Drake himself.
▪ II. ruttier
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