RUTTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rutted mean? 

• RUTTED (adjective)
  The adjective RUTTED has 1 sense:

1. full of ruts

  Familiarity information: RUTTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUTTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Full of ruts

Synonyms:

rutted; rutty

Context example:

rutty farm roads

Similar:

furrowed; rugged (having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface)

 Context examples 

It was a very dark night, and a thin rain began to fall as we turned from the high road into a narrow lane, deeply rutted, with hedges on either side.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then, spurring his steed, the young squire rode at the top of his speed after his companions, and overtook them just at the spot where the trees fringe off into the moor and the straggling hamlet of Hordle lies scattered on either side of the winding and deeply-rutted track.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)