flute
/flu(ː)t/ verb C2- To play on a flute.
- To make a flutelike sound.
- To utter with a flutelike sound.
- To form flutes or channels in (as in a column, a ruffle, etc.); to cut a semicylindrical vertical groove in (as in a pillar, etc.).
He/she/it flutes · Past fluted · Past participle fluted · -ing form fluting
Verb forms
- Base form
- flute
- He/she/it
- flutes
- Past
- fluted
- Past participle
- fluted
- -ing form
- fluting
From the library
A FISHERMAN skilled in music took his flute and his nets to the seashore.
At last, having long waited in vain, he laid aside his flute, and casting his net into the sea, made an excellent haul of fish.
There was no complete maker’s name; but the printed letters P-E-N were on the fluting between the barrels, and the rest of the name had been cut off by the saw.”
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