rutches

Verb

rutch (third-person singular simple present rutches, present participle rutching, simple past and past participle rutched)

1. (US, archaic, informal) To slide; to scooch; to shuffle.
   • Then Ismail set the pace yet faster, and they became the last two of a procession of turbaned men who tramped along a winding tunnel into a great mountain's womb. The sound of slippers clicking and rutching on the rock floor swelled and died and swelled again ...1916, Talbot Mundy, King-of the Khyber rifles: a romance of adventure, page 201
2. (Dutch, English, Pennsylvania, especially) To squirm; to move around frequently.
   • Sitting on hard wooden chairs in school didn't help one bit, and I had an especially difficult time sitting still in class. One of my teachers was quite versed in Pennsylvania Dutch, and kept saying, “Quit your rutching!"2010, Robert Struesel, He Said I Could: Extraordinary from the Ordinary, iUniverse, →ISBN