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| fluted | |
| 1. adj. Having flutes or grooves, either for decoration or to trim weight. |  |
| 2. adj. (Ireland, slang) Drunk; intoxicated. | |
| flute | |
| 1. n. (musical instruments) A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge of the holes, often tuned by plugging one | |
| 2. n. (musical instruments, colloquial) A recorder, also a woodwind instrument. | |
| 3. n. A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne. | |
| 4. n. a lengthwise groove, such as one of the lengthwise grooves on a classical column, or a groove on a cutting tool (such as a drill bit, endmill, or reamer), which helps to form both a cutting edge and a | |
| 5. n. (architecture, firearms) A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight. | |
| 6. n. A long French bread roll. | |
| 7. n. An organ stop with a flute-like sound. | |
| 8. n. A shuttle in weaving tapestry etc. | |
| 9. v. (intransitive) To play on a flute. | |
| 10. v. (intransitive) To make a flutelike sound. | |
| 11. v. To utter with a flutelike sound. | |
| 12. v. 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.). | |
| 13. n. A kind of flyboat; a storeship. | |
