subs. (venery).—1. A man or woman IN RUT (q.v.); and (2) Elizabethan for the German reiter.
1596. LODGE, Incarnate Devils. Some Authors have compared it to a RUTTERS codpiece.
c. 1618. FLETCHER, The Custom of Country, iii. 3.
| The RUTTER, too, is gone. | |
| Ibid., (c. 1620), The Woman’s Prize, i. 4. | |
| Such a regiment of RUTTERS | |
| Never defied men braver. |
