RUTTER

Rutter

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.

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rutter

Noun

  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. A horseman or trooper.


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