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noun
Fluting  n.  Decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively; as, the fluting of a column or pilaster; the fluting of a lady's ruffle.
Fluting iron, a laundry iron for fluting ruffles; called also Italian iron, or gaufering iron.
Fluting lathe, a machine for forming spiral flutes, as on balusters, table legs, etc.



verb
Flute  v. t.  (past & past part. fluted; pres. part. fluting)  
1.
To play, whistle, or sing with a clear, soft note, like that of a flute. "Knaves are men, That lute and flute fantastic tenderness." " The redwing flutes his o-ka-lee."
2.
To form flutes or channels in, as in a column, a ruffle, etc.



Flute  v. i.  To play on, or as on, a flute; to make a flutelike sound.






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"Fluting" Quotes from Famous Books



... evening." It was the summary, the essence, of all his experience. We are like bees foraging in the garden of the world, and hoarding the honey in the hive of memory. And no hoard is like any other hoard that ever was or ever will be. The cuckoo calling over the valley, the blackbird fluting in the low boughs in the evening, the solemn majesty of the Abbey, the life of the streets, the ebb and flow of Father Thames—everything whispers to us some secret that it has for no other ear, and touches a chord of memory that echoes ...
— Pebbles on the Shore • Alpha of the Plough (Alfred George Gardiner)

... (and most fluting and harping), taken as a whole, are really not Makings but Imitations. They differ in three points; they imitate (a) different objects, (b) by different means, (c) differently (i.e. ...
— The Poetics • Aristotle

... uttered in the high fluting tone that she rose to when sure of her subject, fell on a pause which prolonged and deepened itself to receive them, while every face at the table, Ralph Marvell's excepted, reflected in varying degree Mr. Dagonet's ...
— The Custom of the Country • Edith Wharton

... a fresh cigar and went down the familiar path. It was full of memories of his wooing of Denas, and he smiled with a soft triumph to them. And the exquisite morning, the thrushes singing to the sun, the fluting of the blackbirds, the south wind swinging the blue-bells, the mystical murmur of the sea—all these things set themselves unconsciously ...
— A Singer from the Sea • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

... the bench and fence E be removed. An adjustable stop, to be used in beading the edges of matched boards, is inserted on the left side of the sliding section B. A great variety of cutters are supplied, such as: molding, matching, sash, beading, reeding, fluting, hollow, round, plow, rabbet, and filletster. Special shapes can be obtained ...
— Handwork in Wood • William Noyes


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