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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



... limit of the hills! Till the blue cup of music spills Into the boughs of lowland trees; Till thence the lowland singings creep Into the silenced shepherd's head, Creep drowsily through his blood: The young thrush fluting all he knows, The ring-dove moaning his false woes, Almost the rabbit's tiny tread, ...
— Miscellany of Poetry - 1919 • Various
... became the capital of the world, showed a succession of glittering spires and orders of architecture, some of them chaste and simple, like those the capitals of which were borrowed from baskets-full of acanthus; some deriving the fluting of their shafts from the props made originally to support the lances of the earlier Greeks—forms simple, yet more graceful in their simplicity, than any which human ingenuity has been able since to invent. With the most splendid specimens ...
— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott
... preliminary tossing in a rocky, irregular channel. Therefore it is a very white and fine-grained fall. When it is in full springtime bloom it is partly divided by rocks that roughen the lip of the precipice, but this division amounts only to a kind of fluting and grooving of the column, which has a beautiful effect. It is not nearly so grand a fall as the upper Yosemite, or so symmetrical as the Vernal, or so airily graceful and simple as the Bridal Veil, nor does it ever display ...
— The Yosemite • John Muir
... fluting there Upon the apple-bough, Is telling all the world how fair Are apple-blossoms now; The honey-dew its sweetness spills From cuckoo-cups, and all The crocuses and daffodils ...
— Child Songs of Cheer • Evaleen Stein
... Pennsylvania, way back in 1760, or some such early date as that. It was crude as to shape, almost all the pieces are a little crooked, but it was wonderfully made in some ways, for it has a ring like a bell, and the loveliest fluting, and some of it is in beautiful blue, green and amethyst. Stiegel glass is rare and valuable so if you have any more hold on to it and ...
— Amanda - A Daughter of the Mennonites • Anna Balmer Myers


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