ruttern.¹

Brit.

/ˈrʌtə/, U.S.

/ˈrədər/

Forms: 1500s ruter, 1500s router, 1500s routter, 1500s– rutter, 1800s rütter, 1800s ruttier.

Origin: A borrowing from Dutch. Etymons: Dutch rūter, ruiter.

Etymology: < Middle Dutch rūter, rutter (late 14th cent.), variant of ruiter, ruyter (Dutch ruiter , †ruyter ruiter n.; > German Reuter (15th cent.; in early modern German also as (rare) ruter , rutter (15th cent.)) < Middle French routier routier n.² Compare post-classical Latin rutarius rutar n., Middle Low German ruter ( > Old Swedish, Swedish ryttare, Danish rytter).

Now historical.

a. A cavalry soldier, especially a German one, of the kind employed in the wars of the 16th and 17th centuries.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > mounted soldier > others

jousterc1330

knight1489

rutter1506

reister1521

reiter1556

ruiter1579

hargulater1581

lancer1590

lance1602

rutar1610

dragon1620

dragoon1622

right-hand man1626

dragooner1639

leaguerer1639

deli1667

Light Dragoon1700

uhlan1753

sabre1836

parachutist1837

sabreur1845

yellow leg1857

spahi1863

horse-marine1878

uhlaner1886

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] > member of > male

gallant1388

wamfler15..

rutter1506

younkera1522

fine gentleman1575

cavalier1589

whisker1595

jinglespur1604

bravery1616

brisk1621

chevalier1630

man about town1647

man of mode1676

man of distinction1699

sprag1707

sparky1756

blood1763

swell1786

Corinthian1819

galliard1828

mondain1833

toff1851

flâneur1854

Johnny1883

silver-tail1898

knut1911

lounge lizard1918

old buster1919

Hooray Henry1959

1506 W. Makefyrr in Paston Lett. (1875) III. 405 Thyse to the rutters of the spers.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccxlvii. 551 There he assembled a great nombre of such rutters, englisshe, gascons, bretons, almayns.

?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda sig. B1 You are a Rutter borne in Germanie.

1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 148 An Army..amounting all to ten thousand horse. To which he might adde three or foure thousand German Rutters.

1654 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Bentivoglio Compl. Hist. Warrs Flanders 206 Mustering a considerable strength of Foot..together with a good number of Rutters.

1855 B. Burke Visitation Seats & Arms Noblemen & Gentlemen Great Brit. & Ireland 2nd Ser. II. 73/1 In the seventeenth year of King John's reign, Roger Bertram joined the northern barons in opposing that fickle tyrant, who, at the head of his Flemish rütters, was laying waste the land without remorse.

1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake II. ii. 25 He and his troop of Angevine ruttiers had fought like tigers by William's side at Hastings.

1992 V. F. Stern Sir Stephen Powle of Court & Country iv. 67 Those of the meaner sort and common soldiers were discontented with England because the previous summer many Rutters were commandeered by Grave Meurs using her majesty's name.

2007 D. Bevington in P. Happé & W. Hüsken Interludes & Early Mod. Soc. 377 Rutterkins are swaggering gallants or bullies, like German rutters or cavalry soldiers, but applied especially in the Renaissance to Roman Catholic priests and popes.

†b. A person dressed or behaving like a rutter; a light-hearted cavalier, a dashing gallant. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Cii Howe sayst thou man am not I a Ioly rutter.

?a1534 H. Medwall Nature i. sig. dii^v Whan he is in suche aray There goth a rutter men wyll say a rutter huf a galand.

1567 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. iv. iv. 390 (margin) Zuinglius was a Godly Preacher, and no Rutter.

1576 J. Woolton Christian Man. sig. I.v^v They set them out wyth sumpteous, and gorgeous apparell, of dyuerse colors sometyme lyke Routters, sometyme lyke Rouffyns.

†2. A member of a gang of swindlers (see quot. 1608). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > defrauder or swindler > [noun]

feature14..

frauderc1475

prowler1519

lurcher1528

defrauder1552

frauditor1553

taker-upc1555

verserc1555

fogger1564

Jack-in-the-box1570

gilenyer1590

foist1591

rutter1591

crossbiter1592

sharker1594

shark1600

bat-fowler1602

cheater1606

foister1610

operator1611

fraudsman1613

projector1615

smoke-sellera1618

decoy1618

firkera1626

scandaroon1631

snapa1640

cunning shaver1652

knight of industrya1658

chouse1658

cheat1664

sharper1681

jockey1683

rooker1683

fool-finder1685

rookster1697

sheep-shearer1699

bubbler1720

gyp1728

bite1742

swindler1770

pigeon1780

mace1781

gouger1790

needle1790

fly-by-night1796

sharp1797

skinner1797

diddler1803

mace cove1811

mace-gloak1819

macer1819

flat-catcher1821

moonlight wanderer1823

burner1838

Peter Funk1840

Funk1842

pigeoner1849

maceman1850

bester1856

fiddler1857

highway robber1874

bunco-steerer1875

swizzler1876

forty1879

flim-flammer1881

chouser1883

take-down1888

highbinder1890

fraud1895

Sam Slick1897

grafter1899

come-on1905

verneuker1905

gypster1917

chiseller1918

tweedler1925

rorter1926

gazumper1932

chizzer1935

sharpie1942

sharpster1942

slick1959

slickster1965

rip-off artist1968

shonky1970

rip-off merchant1971

1591 R. Greene Notable Discouery of Coosenage To Rdr. sig. B2^v Four persons were required to perform their coosning commodity. The Taker vp, the Verser, the Barnard and the Rutter.

1591 R. Greene Notable Discouery of Coosenage To Rdr. sig. B3^v Then standeth the Rutter at the doore and draweth his sword and picketh a quarrel at his owne shadowe.

1608 T. Dekker Belman of London (new ed.) sig. F2^v The Rutter is as arrant a knaue as the rest, his part is discharged when hee hath begun a fray with his owne shadowe, whilst the rest that haue made a younger Brother of the poore Cozen, steale out of sight.

Compounds

† rutter-wise adv. Obsolete rare in the manner of a rutter.

ΚΠ

1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 832 The high Dutch attired in blacke, with..long breeches little lesse than Rutter wise.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

ruttern.²

Brit.

/ˈrʌtə/, U.S.

/ˈrədər/

Forms:

α. late Middle English– rutter, 1500s ruter.

β. 1600s ruttiér, 1600s– ruttier.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French routier.

Etymology: < Middle French routier (1484; French routier ) < route route n.¹ + -ier -ier suffix. Compare later routier n.¹ With the α. forms compare -er suffix².

Now historical.

A set of instructions for finding a course at sea or, rarely, on land; a marine guide to routes, tides, etc. Cf. routier n.¹

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > pilot book

rutter1561

sea-ruttier1599

routier1677

wagoner1687

pilot1693

portolan1717

sea-book1726

norie1827

α.

1561 R. Eden in tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation Pref. ⁋⁋i Without any Rutter or Carde of Nauigation.

1594 T. Blundeville Exercises vii. lv. f. 350^v Whose Tables touching the tydes are called Rutters.

1594 T. Blundeville Exercises vii. lv. f. 350^v I would wish such generall Rutter to be made in manner of an Alphabet.

a1600 (title) The Booke of the Sea Carte called the Rutter, which sheweth ye tydes, courses, kennynges,..aboute the whole Ile of Brytanye.

a1653 J. Greaves Misc. Wks. (1737) II. 388 Also they shall give information of those errors and defects which are in books of Navigation, especially in those they term Rutters and Wagoners.

1782 S. Ayscough Catal. MSS Brit. Mus. II. 701 Another rutter to the West-Indies from the Canaries.

1812 R. Kerr Gen. Hist. & Coll. Voy. & Trav. VI. ii. iii. 296 We now take up the Rutter or Journal of Don Juan de Castro.

1937 Geogr. Jrnl. 90 386 It appears that there were existing rutters up to this point.

1962 J. Needham Sci. & Civilisation in China IV. i. 285 It must have been a ‘routier’ or ‘rutter’ like the Yüeh Yang Chen Lu Chi (Record of Courses Set by the Needle in the Cantonese Seas), which is known to have still existed in the 18th century.

1973 ‘D. 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.

2007 Scotsman (Nexis) 5 Jan. 13 The map is part of an 86-page book of 16th century sailing directions, published in French and known as a routier, or rutter.

β. 1600 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 719 A ruttier or course to be kept for him that will sayle from Cabo Verde to the coast of Brasil.1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Routier,..a Ruttier; a directorie for the knowledge, or finding out of courses, whether by sea or land.1697 tr. L. D. Le Comte Mem. Journey China ii. 505 I have a Ruttiér, or Directory, for finding out the Course of a Vessel from Nimpo to Pekin.1737 W. Oldys Brit. Librarian Mar. 155 Another principal Ruttier, containing most particular Directions for sailing to all the Western Islands.1753 P. Templeman tr. Curious Remarks & Observ. extracted from Hist. & Mem. Royal Acad. Sci. Paris I. 362 The map of father Fritz places this city at 1 degree south latitude, and the new Portuguese ruttier at 1 degree 40 minutes.1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! I. i. 8 See if he don't tell you over the ruttier as well as Drake himself.1922 F. J. H. Darton Marches Wessex p. xi A Ruttier of a way from Dorchester to Abbotsbury.1996 Mod. Asian Stud. 30 56 In this Chinese ruttier the same islands with their exotic products are described.2001 Spectator (Hamilton, Ont.) (Nexis) 29 Sept. m19 Or perhaps in Brand's case, being a poet, an oral ruttier would be more appropriate.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

ruttern.³

Brit.

/ˈrʌtə/, U.S.

/ˈrədər/, Scottish English

/ˈrʌtər/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rut v.², -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < rut v.² + -er suffix¹.

Now chiefly Scottish.

A spade or other implement for cutting or marking off turf or ground.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > turf- or peat-cutter

turf-spade1477

peat-spade1492

turfing-spade1677

slane1745

becket1764

rutter1778

turskill1812

turfing-iron1852

1778 J. Abercrombie Universal Gardener & Botanist at Grass They should first be marked by line..with a racer or rutter.

1855 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1854: Agric. 390 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (33rd Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 59, Pt. 3) VII The pieces of turf..should be first marked by a line of the proper width, length, and depth, with an instrument called a ‘racer’, or ‘rutter’.

1866 E. Watts Flowers & Flower Garden ii. 12 Before cutting them the ground should be marked out, and cut downwards with a racer or rutter—a thin sharp instrument with a rounded edge, like a cheese-cutter, fixed to a handle about four feet long.

1913 J. Byers Hamely Musings 37 And fain would I take your advice And throw aside the rutter.

1923 Chambers's Jrnl. 12 May 370/1 The rutter is a two-handed spade, the blade heart-shaped and sharp.

1931 Scots Mag. Sept. 421 She came back, and with the great rutting spade lifted out a sod and replaced it lightly, leaving the rutter as a mark.

1975 Times 27 Aug. 8/5 A curved rutter is used for cutting the [peat] turf, a long-handled spade or flaughter for removing it.

1999 M. Robinson et al. Conc. Scots Dict. (ed. 3) 565/2 Rutter, a marker on a drill plough, which cuts the line of the next drill 20–now Arg Kcb.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

ruttern.⁴

Brit.

/ˈrʌtə/, U.S.

/ˈrədər/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rut n.², rut v.⁴, -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < either rut n.² or rut v.⁴ + -er suffix¹.

North American. Now historical.

A kind of plough used by lumberjacks for making tracks for sleighs.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumbering equipment > other equipment

bunk1770

headworks1823

rutter1897

hog1898

choker1905

spud1914

stumping powder1921

1897 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1896 (U.S. Patents Office) 685 Snow-plough and rutter.

1904 Amer. Monthly Rev. of Reviews Feb. 237/1 The rutter is sent over the road to prepare the permanent track.

1969 L. G. Sorden Lumberjack Lingo 100 Rutter, a form of plow for cutting ruts in an iced logging road for the runners of a sleigh. It was often combined with a snowplow. The roads were sprinkled with water from the water tank and frozen to make ice roads.

1972 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 19 Nov. 4/3 The lumbermen had a unique system of hauling logs. In early fall, while the ground was still soft, they would build a rutter. Using the front bob of a wide logging sleigh, a small V-shaped plow was welded to the point of each sleigh runner. Then the sleigh bob was taken to the top of the proposed logging road, turned around, and twin tracks were then plowed eight inches deep and six inches wide down to the main camp.

1996 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. Sentinel (Nexis) 14 July 3 Outside the museum stands an actual ice-road rutter rig that once cut tracks for the runners of logging sleighs.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹1506

n.²1561

n.³1778

n.⁴1897

单词	rutter
释义	ruttern.¹ Brit. /ˈrʌtə/, U.S. /ˈrədər/ Forms: 1500s ruter, 1500s router, 1500s routter, 1500s– rutter, 1800s rütter, 1800s ruttier. Origin: A borrowing from Dutch. Etymons: Dutch rūter, ruiter. Etymology: < Middle Dutch rūter, rutter (late 14th cent.), variant of ruiter, ruyter (Dutch ruiter , †ruyter ruiter n.; > German Reuter (15th cent.; in early modern German also as (rare) ruter , rutter (15th cent.)) < Middle French routier routier n.² Compare post-classical Latin rutarius rutar n., Middle Low German ruter ( > Old Swedish, Swedish ryttare, Danish rytter). Now historical. 1. a. A cavalry soldier, especially a German one, of the kind employed in the wars of the 16th and 17th centuries. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > mounted soldier > others jousterc1330 knight1489 rutter1506 reister1521 reiter1556 ruiter1579 hargulater1581 lancer1590 lance1602 rutar1610 dragon1620 dragoon1622 right-hand man1626 dragooner1639 leaguerer1639 deli1667 Light Dragoon1700 uhlan1753 sabre1836 parachutist1837 sabreur1845 yellow leg1857 spahi1863 horse-marine1878 uhlaner1886 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] > member of > male gallant1388 wamfler15.. rutter1506 younkera1522 fine gentleman1575 cavalier1589 whisker1595 jinglespur1604 bravery1616 brisk1621 chevalier1630 man about town1647 man of mode1676 man of distinction1699 sprag1707 sparky1756 blood1763 swell1786 Corinthian1819 galliard1828 mondain1833 toff1851 flâneur1854 Johnny1883 silver-tail1898 knut1911 lounge lizard1918 old buster1919 Hooray Henry1959 1506 W. Makefyrr in Paston Lett. (1875) III. 405 Thyse to the rutters of the spers. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccxlvii. 551 There he assembled a great nombre of such rutters, englisshe, gascons, bretons, almayns. ?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda sig. B1 You are a Rutter borne in Germanie. 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 148 An Army..amounting all to ten thousand horse. To which he might adde three or foure thousand German Rutters. 1654 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Bentivoglio Compl. Hist. Warrs Flanders 206 Mustering a considerable strength of Foot..together with a good number of Rutters. 1855 B. Burke Visitation Seats & Arms Noblemen & Gentlemen Great Brit. & Ireland 2nd Ser. II. 73/1 In the seventeenth year of King John's reign, Roger Bertram joined the northern barons in opposing that fickle tyrant, who, at the head of his Flemish rütters, was laying waste the land without remorse. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake II. ii. 25 He and his troop of Angevine ruttiers had fought like tigers by William's side at Hastings. 1992 V. F. Stern Sir Stephen Powle of Court & Country iv. 67 Those of the meaner sort and common soldiers were discontented with England because the previous summer many Rutters were commandeered by Grave Meurs using her majesty's name. 2007 D. Bevington in P. Happé & W. Hüsken Interludes & Early Mod. Soc. 377 Rutterkins are swaggering gallants or bullies, like German rutters or cavalry soldiers, but applied especially in the Renaissance to Roman Catholic priests and popes. †b. A person dressed or behaving like a rutter; a light-hearted cavalier, a dashing gallant. Obsolete. ΚΠ a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Cii Howe sayst thou man am not I a Ioly rutter. ?a1534 H. Medwall Nature i. sig. dii^v Whan he is in suche aray There goth a rutter men wyll say a rutter huf a galand. 1567 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. iv. iv. 390 (margin) Zuinglius was a Godly Preacher, and no Rutter. 1576 J. Woolton Christian Man. sig. I.v^v They set them out wyth sumpteous, and gorgeous apparell, of dyuerse colors sometyme lyke Routters, sometyme lyke Rouffyns. †2. A member of a gang of swindlers (see quot. 1608). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > defrauder or swindler > [noun] feature14.. frauderc1475 prowler1519 lurcher1528 defrauder1552 frauditor1553 taker-upc1555 verserc1555 fogger1564 Jack-in-the-box1570 gilenyer1590 foist1591 rutter1591 crossbiter1592 sharker1594 shark1600 bat-fowler1602 cheater1606 foister1610 operator1611 fraudsman1613 projector1615 smoke-sellera1618 decoy1618 firkera1626 scandaroon1631 snapa1640 cunning shaver1652 knight of industrya1658 chouse1658 cheat1664 sharper1681 jockey1683 rooker1683 fool-finder1685 rookster1697 sheep-shearer1699 bubbler1720 gyp1728 bite1742 swindler1770 pigeon1780 mace1781 gouger1790 needle1790 fly-by-night1796 sharp1797 skinner1797 diddler1803 mace cove1811 mace-gloak1819 macer1819 flat-catcher1821 moonlight wanderer1823 burner1838 Peter Funk1840 Funk1842 pigeoner1849 maceman1850 bester1856 fiddler1857 highway robber1874 bunco-steerer1875 swizzler1876 forty1879 flim-flammer1881 chouser1883 take-down1888 highbinder1890 fraud1895 Sam Slick1897 grafter1899 come-on1905 verneuker1905 gypster1917 chiseller1918 tweedler1925 rorter1926 gazumper1932 chizzer1935 sharpie1942 sharpster1942 slick1959 slickster1965 rip-off artist1968 shonky1970 rip-off merchant1971 1591 R. Greene Notable Discouery of Coosenage To Rdr. sig. B2^v Four persons were required to perform their coosning commodity. The Taker vp, the Verser, the Barnard and the Rutter. 1591 R. Greene Notable Discouery of Coosenage To Rdr. sig. B3^v Then standeth the Rutter at the doore and draweth his sword and picketh a quarrel at his owne shadowe. 1608 T. Dekker Belman of London (new ed.) sig. F2^v The Rutter is as arrant a knaue as the rest, his part is discharged when hee hath begun a fray with his owne shadowe, whilst the rest that haue made a younger Brother of the poore Cozen, steale out of sight. Compounds † rutter-wise adv. Obsolete rare in the manner of a rutter. ΚΠ 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 832 The high Dutch attired in blacke, with..long breeches little lesse than Rutter wise. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). ruttern.² Brit. /ˈrʌtə/, U.S. /ˈrədər/ Forms: α. late Middle English– rutter, 1500s ruter. β. 1600s ruttiér, 1600s– ruttier. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French routier. Etymology: < Middle French routier (1484; French routier ) < route route n.¹ + -ier -ier suffix. Compare later routier n.¹ With the α. forms compare -er suffix². Now historical. A set of instructions for finding a course at sea or, rarely, on land; a marine guide to routes, tides, etc. Cf. routier n.¹ ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > pilot book rutter1561 sea-ruttier1599 routier1677 wagoner1687 pilot1693 portolan1717 sea-book1726 norie1827 α. 1561 R. Eden in tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation Pref. ⁋⁋i Without any Rutter or Carde of Nauigation. 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises vii. lv. f. 350^v Whose Tables touching the tydes are called Rutters. 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises vii. lv. f. 350^v I would wish such generall Rutter to be made in manner of an Alphabet. a1600 (title) The Booke of the Sea Carte called the Rutter, which sheweth ye tydes, courses, kennynges,..aboute the whole Ile of Brytanye. a1653 J. Greaves Misc. Wks. (1737) II. 388 Also they shall give information of those errors and defects which are in books of Navigation, especially in those they term Rutters and Wagoners. 1782 S. Ayscough Catal. MSS Brit. Mus. II. 701 Another rutter to the West-Indies from the Canaries. 1812 R. Kerr Gen. Hist. & Coll. Voy. & Trav. VI. ii. iii. 296 We now take up the Rutter or Journal of Don Juan de Castro. 1937 Geogr. Jrnl. 90 386 It appears that there were existing rutters up to this point. 1962 J. Needham Sci. & Civilisation in China IV. i. 285 It must have been a ‘routier’ or ‘rutter’ like the Yüeh Yang Chen Lu Chi (Record of Courses Set by the Needle in the Cantonese Seas), which is known to have still existed in the 18th century. 1973 ‘D. 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. 2007 Scotsman (Nexis) 5 Jan. 13 The map is part of an 86-page book of 16th century sailing directions, published in French and known as a routier, or rutter. β. 1600 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 719 A ruttier or course to be kept for him that will sayle from Cabo Verde to the coast of Brasil.1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Routier,..a Ruttier; a directorie for the knowledge, or finding out of courses, whether by sea or land.1697 tr. L. D. Le Comte Mem. Journey China ii. 505 I have a Ruttiér, or Directory, for finding out the Course of a Vessel from Nimpo to Pekin.1737 W. Oldys Brit. Librarian Mar. 155 Another principal Ruttier, containing most particular Directions for sailing to all the Western Islands.1753 P. Templeman tr. Curious Remarks & Observ. extracted from Hist. & Mem. Royal Acad. Sci. Paris I. 362 The map of father Fritz places this city at 1 degree south latitude, and the new Portuguese ruttier at 1 degree 40 minutes.1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! I. i. 8 See if he don't tell you over the ruttier as well as Drake himself.1922 F. J. H. Darton Marches Wessex p. xi A Ruttier of a way from Dorchester to Abbotsbury.1996 Mod. Asian Stud. 30 56 In this Chinese ruttier the same islands with their exotic products are described.2001 Spectator (Hamilton, Ont.) (Nexis) 29 Sept. m19 Or perhaps in Brand's case, being a poet, an oral ruttier would be more appropriate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). ruttern.³ Brit. /ˈrʌtə/, U.S. /ˈrədər/, Scottish English /ˈrʌtər/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rut v.², -er suffix¹. Etymology: < rut v.² + -er suffix¹. Now chiefly Scottish. A spade or other implement for cutting or marking off turf or ground. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > turf- or peat-cutter turf-spade1477 peat-spade1492 turfing-spade1677 slane1745 becket1764 rutter1778 turskill1812 turfing-iron1852 1778 J. Abercrombie Universal Gardener & Botanist at Grass They should first be marked by line..with a racer or rutter. 1855 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1854: Agric. 390 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (33rd Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 59, Pt. 3) VII The pieces of turf..should be first marked by a line of the proper width, length, and depth, with an instrument called a ‘racer’, or ‘rutter’. 1866 E. Watts Flowers & Flower Garden ii. 12 Before cutting them the ground should be marked out, and cut downwards with a racer or rutter—a thin sharp instrument with a rounded edge, like a cheese-cutter, fixed to a handle about four feet long. 1913 J. Byers Hamely Musings 37 And fain would I take your advice And throw aside the rutter. 1923 Chambers's Jrnl. 12 May 370/1 The rutter is a two-handed spade, the blade heart-shaped and sharp. 1931 Scots Mag. Sept. 421 She came back, and with the great rutting spade lifted out a sod and replaced it lightly, leaving the rutter as a mark. 1975 Times 27 Aug. 8/5 A curved rutter is used for cutting the [peat] turf, a long-handled spade or flaughter for removing it. 1999 M. Robinson et al. Conc. Scots Dict. (ed. 3) 565/2 Rutter, a marker on a drill plough, which cuts the line of the next drill 20–now Arg Kcb. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). ruttern.⁴ Brit. /ˈrʌtə/, U.S. /ˈrədər/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rut n.², rut v.⁴, -er suffix¹. Etymology: < either rut n.² or rut v.⁴ + -er suffix¹. North American. Now historical. A kind of plough used by lumberjacks for making tracks for sleighs. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumbering equipment > other equipment bunk1770 headworks1823 rutter1897 hog1898 choker1905 spud1914 stumping powder1921 1897 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1896 (U.S. Patents Office) 685 Snow-plough and rutter. 1904 Amer. Monthly Rev. of Reviews Feb. 237/1 The rutter is sent over the road to prepare the permanent track. 1969 L. G. Sorden Lumberjack Lingo 100 Rutter, a form of plow for cutting ruts in an iced logging road for the runners of a sleigh. It was often combined with a snowplow. The roads were sprinkled with water from the water tank and frozen to make ice roads. 1972 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 19 Nov. 4/3 The lumbermen had a unique system of hauling logs. In early fall, while the ground was still soft, they would build a rutter. Using the front bob of a wide logging sleigh, a small V-shaped plow was welded to the point of each sleigh runner. Then the sleigh bob was taken to the top of the proposed logging road, turned around, and twin tracks were then plowed eight inches deep and six inches wide down to the main camp. 1996 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. Sentinel (Nexis) 14 July 3 Outside the museum stands an actual ice-road rutter rig that once cut tracks for the runners of logging sleighs. 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