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- German · borrowed fromRute“rod, switch (slender woody plant stem)”
- English todayrute
Borrowed from German Rute (“rod, switch (slender woody plant stem)”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
rute
Today it means: A beater for drums, consisting of a bundle of thin sticks, typically made of wood, sometimes bound in such a way that the binding can be moved so that it varies the tightness of the binding. Full definition →
German Rute