Meaning of rutter | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A horseman or cavalryman, especially a German one, associated with the wars of the 16th and 17th centuries.
   historical
3. A set of instructions for navigating a course at sea; a pilot's book or seaman's guide.
   historical
4. A tool used in peat cutting or for marking off ground.
   Scotland
5. A community in French River municipality, Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada.
6. A type of plough used by lumberjacks to carve a track for a sleigh.
   Canada, US, historical
7. The penis.
   slang

Equivalents

Examples

“Such a regiment of rutters / Never defied men braver”

“But a rutter was only as good as the pilot who wrote it, the scribe who hand-copied it, the very rare printer who printed it, or the scholar who translated it.”

“She moved my rutter so that it was not poking into her. We fell asleep.”

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