rutter

[ ruht-er ]

noun

1. portolano.

Word History and Origins

Origin of rutter¹

1490–1500; variant of ruttier < Middle French routier, equivalent to route route + -ier -ier ²

Example Sentences

Many of the schoolboys went on to have successful careers in music, including renowned composer John Rutter and John Blakely, who was a professor at the Royal College of Music for over 30 years.

From BBC

They paid a club record £39.9m for Leeds' Georginio Rutter, £29.9m for Newcastle's Yankuba Minteh, and more than £25m for each of Ferdi Kadioglu, Brajan Gruda, Mats Wieffer and Ibrahim Osman.

From BBC

O'Riley becomes Brighton's seventh signing of a busy summer that includes a £40m club-record deal for French forward Georginio Rutter from Leeds and Netherlands midfielder Mats Wieffer joining from Feyenoord for about £25.5m.

From BBC

I talked to one of the most renowned psilocybin researchers, Robin Carhart-Harris, who told me about this guy, Kirk Rutter, whose mother had died, he’d been in this terrible car accident and then he went through a romantic breakup all in the span of about a year.

From Los Angeles Times

The former England forward signed a new contract in the summer and, with Evan Ferguson being nursed back to full fitness after his recent ankle injury and £40m new-boy Georginio Rutter being given time to adjust after finally completing his move from Leeds, Welbeck is a key figure on and off the pitch.

From BBC