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rutter
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rutter \Rut"ter\, n. [From Rut.] That which ruts.
Rutter \Rut"ter\ (r[u^]t"t[~e]r), n. [D. ruiter a rider. Cf. Ruttier.] A horseman or trooper. [Obs.]
Such a regiment of rutters
Never defied men braver.
--Beau. & Fl.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A thing that ruts. 2 A tool used in peat cutting. 3 A guide who leads the way through a difficult or unknown course. 4 A pilot book or seaman's guide carried by navigators in the Middle Ages; a precursor to the modern navigation chart. 5 (context obsolete English) A horseman or trooper.
Wikipedia
Rutter is a surname of English origin. Notable people with the surname include:
Rutter may refer to:
- Rutter (name), a surname of English origin
- Rutter (nautical), a mariner's handbook of sailing directions
- Rutter, Ontario
- Operation Rutter, code name for the Dieppe Raid in 1942
- Rutter's, a convenience store chain
A rutter is a mariner's handbook of written sailing directions. Before the advent of nautical charts, rutters were the primary store of geographic information for maritime navigation.
It was known as a periplus ("sailing-around" book) in Classical antiquity and a portolano ("port book") to Medieval Italian sailors in the Mediterranean Sea. Portuguese navigators of the 16th century called it a roteiro, the French a routier, from which the English word "rutter" is derived. In Dutch, it was called a leeskarte ("reading chart") and in German a Seebuch ("sea book").
Usage examples of "rutter".
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.
My rutter gives dates, places, and amounts of plunder taken, the number of dead at our three landings in the Americas and the one in Spanish Africa, the number of churches sacked, and how we burned the towns and the shipping.
At least it was bought from a Portuguese traitor, and by their law any foreigner caught in possession of any rutter of theirs, let alone one that unlocks the Magellan, is to be put to death at once.
And if the rutter is found aboard an enemy ship, the ship is to be burned and all aboard executed without mercy.
Of course the Dutch merchants would have preferred to use one of their own pilots, but there was none to compare in quality with Englishmen trained by the monopolistic Trinity House, and the awesome value of this rutter forced them to gamble on Blackthorne.
And a similar hair, equally invisible to anyone but him, that he had put on the cover of his rutter was also untouched.
He opened the well-oiled lock and took out his private rutter to check some bearings for the nearest haven and his eyes saw the sealed packet the priest, Father Sebastio, had given him just before they had left Anjiro.
His eyes went to the rutter that was open on the desk, and to his sea chest.
Their equipment and operatives were being airlifted in an SO-12 Chinook helicopter, and Colonel Rutter had flown ahead to see what needed to be done.
Grimsley, who was west of Samawah and out of radio contact with Rutter, knew something was amiss when he checked Blue Force Tracker: there were blue icons in the heart of Samawah.
He sent Rutter an e-mail message asking what the hell Jimmy Lee was doing there.
Lambert, Signor Ricetti, the Baron and Baroness von Rutter, Otomi and Toussaint.
Scotch drunk in quick succession after Monique Von Rutter waltzed back into the living room, her lipstick smudged, her hair tousled, her eyes slumberous.
Except for von Rutter, who was accompanied by his sleek and beautiful wife Monique.
He was the type of man to go for an exotic butterfly like Monique Von Rutter or a ruthlessly chic Englishwoman like Madame Lambert.