Rutting means in the season when male deer fight and mate. The rutting season, rutting stags, rutting in October.
It runs from late September to November in British red deer, and the roaring contests settle most matches before any fighting starts — actual clashes are a last resort because antlers can kill. Deer parks warn visitors to keep well back at this time.
1adjectiveruttingIn the season when male deer fight and mate.
“In autumn you can hear the rutting stags roaring across the park.”
rutting is a season of behaviour.
Latin
rugītus
Old French
rut — noise, roar, bellowing
Middle English
rutte
English
rut
English, today
rutting
Built from
rut comes from Middle English rutte and rutten, from Old French rut (“noise, roar, bellowing”), from Latin rugītus, from rugīre (“to roar”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA