rut vs spoke

rut

noun
  • A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road. 

  • The noise made by deer during sexual excitement. 

  • Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals. 

  • Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. 

  • A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling. 

  • In omegaverse fiction, the intense biological urge of an alpha to mate, typically triggered by proximity to an omega in heat. 

  • A dull routine. 

verb
  • To be in the annual rut or mating season. 

  • To have sexual intercourse. 

  • To have sexual intercourse with. 

  • To make a furrow. 

spoke

noun
  • A device for fastening the wheel of a vehicle to prevent it from turning when going downhill. 

  • A projecting handle of a steering wheel. 

  • A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim. 

  • A rung of a ladder. 

  • One of the outlying points in a hub-and-spoke model of transportation. 

verb
  • simple past tense of speak 

  • To furnish (a wheel) with spokes. 

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