fluten.1
/fluːt/, U.S. /flut/ 1. † b. to (go and) blow one's flute: to ‘whistle’ for something. Obsolete.
a. A musical wind instrument, consisting of a hollow cylinder or pipe, with holes along its length, stopped by the fingers, or by keys which are opened by the fingers.The flute of the ancients, whether single or double, was blown through a mouthpiece at the end. About the middle of the 18th cent. this was entirely superseded by the transverse flute or German flute, which is blown through an orifice at the side near the upper end.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > woodwind instruments > [noun] > flute
flutec1384
gewgawc1440
flauto1724
c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame iii. 133 And many flowte and liltyng horne.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 95/1 The mayde remembred the wordes and threwe doun her pype or floyte.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. v. f. 26v They harde the noyse of the fluites, shalmes, & drummes.
1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes IV. 1533 Indians met vs on the way, playing vpon Flutes; which is a token that they come in peace.
1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity ii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 434 The trumpet's sound Provok'd the Dorian flute.
1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 5 My relaxation, after study, was my german-flute.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Fragm. Unfinished Drama 180 I nursed the plant, and on the double flute Played to it..Soft melodies.
1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia II. vii. 178 A single flute within the curtain began to send forth luscious strains.
1879 J. Stainer Music of Bible 80 A quartet was played by four flutes, treble, alto, tenor, and bass.
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the mind > language > speech > request > make a request [verb (intransitive)] > whistle for something
to (go and) blow one's flutec1547
c1547 Vox Populi vii, in J. Skelton Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 407 When thei have any sute, Thei maye goo blowe theire flute.
c. A flute-player.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > wind player > [noun] > flute-player
fluterc1400
flute1542
flutist1603
fluteress1611
flute-player1633
flutenist1647
tibicen1776
tibicinist1776
aulete1847
flute-girl1853
flautist1860
1542 in Privy Purse Expenses Princess Mary (1831) 104 The Welshe mynstrels iijs. ixd. The Flutes xs.
1630 J. Taylor Trav. Twelve-pence in Wks. i. 71/1 To Church~wardens, Cryers, To Fluits, Horse coursers, Sellers, and to Buyers.
1765 Meretriciad 48 Then, solus, hops, a dull Orchestran flute.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 263 Two flutes and a violoncello had pleaded severe colds.
2. An organ stop having a flute-like tone. Also flute-stop (see Compounds 2).There are various kinds of flute-stops known by special designations, as the clear flute, harmonic flute, oboe flute, snake flute.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop > flute-tone stops
flute1613
flute-stop1819
flute-work1879
1613 in C. Beswick Organs Worcester Cathedral (2004) 1 flute of wood.
1776 J. Hawkins Gen. Hist. Music IV. i. x. 147 The simple stops are the..Flute..and some others.
1855 E. J. Hopkins Organ xxii. 118 As a Pedal stop, the Flute has not yet been much used in this country.
3. Applied to objects resembling a flute in shape.
a. A tall, slender wine glass, used especially for sparkling wines. Called also flute-glass.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > glass
glassc888
verrea1382
Venice glass1527
rummer1625
bottle glass1626
Malaga glassa1627
flute1649
flute-glass1668
long glass1680
mum-glass1684
toasting glass1703
wine glass1709
tulip-glass1755
tun-glass1755
water glass1779
tumbler-glass1795
Madeira glass1801
tumbling glass1803
noggin glass1805
champagne glass1815
table glass1815
balloon glass1819
copita1841
firing glass1842
nobbler1842
thimble glass1843
wine1848
liqueur-glass1850
straw-stem1853
pokal1854
goblet1856
mousseline1862
pony glass1862
long-sleever1872
cocktail glass1873
champagne flute1882
yard-glass1882
sleever1896
tea-glass1898
liqueur1907
dock-glass1911
toast-master glass1916
Waterford1916
stem-glass1922
Pilsner glass1923
Amen glass1924
ballon1930
balloon goblet1931
thistle glass1935
snifter1937
balloon1951
shot-glass1955
handle1956
tulip1961
schooner1967
champagne fountain1973
1649 R. Lovelace Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs 99 Elles of Beere, Flutes of Canary That well did washe downe pasties-mary.
1924 Glasgow Herald 6 Oct. 8 ‘Sect’, or German champagne is to be drunk only from French-fashioned flutes or tall glasses.
1959 House & Garden Dec.–Jan. 36/3 Deep wine goblets or tall champagne flutes.
1964 Observer 14 June 33/5 A champagne ‘flute’, tall enough for a quarter or a fifth of a bottle.
b. A shuttle used in tapestry-weaving.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > tapestry weaving > equipment for
flute1728
reed1728
broach1783
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Tapestry The Flute does the Office of the Weavers Shuttle.
c. Cookery, etc. (See quots.) Perhaps only French.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > loaf > [noun] > roll
roll1581
bapc1600
wreath1600
breadcake1635
French roll1652
cookie1701
sugar-roll1727
petit pain1766
souter's clod1773
twist1830
simit1836
bread roll1838
pistolet1853
flute1855
twist-loaf1856
Parker House roll1873
crescent roll1886
bagel1898
Kaiser roll1898
buttery1899
croissant1899
split1905
pan de sal1910
bridge roll1926
Kaiser1927
Kaiser bun1933
Bialystok roll1951
pletzel1952
panini1955
bialy1958
Bialystok1960
1855 H. Clarke New Dict. Eng. Lang. Flute..gaufer.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Flute.. a long thin French roll eaten at breakfast.
4. Architecture. A channel or furrow in a pillar, resembling the half of a flute split longitudinally, with the concave side outwards.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > shaft of column > fluting
swagement1519
canaliculus1563
fluting1611
flute1660
1660 tr. H. Blum Bk. Five Collumnes Archit. (new ed.) A/1 Stria, the flat lying between the Flutes.
1728 R. Morris Ess. Anc. Archit. 81 The Column is divided into twenty-four Flutes, and..each Side contains three Flutes.
a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) II. 126 Vast round columns..having their shafts decorated with spiral, zig-zag, intersecting, and vertical flutes.
5. A similar groove or channel in any material. In Botany: see quot. 1728.
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the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > ridge channel > [noun]
wrinkle1545
crest1597
ruga1683
tubea1704
furrow1725
flute1728
stria1731
rib1740
carina1774
striolet1826
vallecula1856
channel1875
carination1880
rumination1889
striola1903
riblet1949
the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [noun] > making grooves > a groove, channel, or furrow
furrowc1374
groopc1440
regal1458
rat1513
slot?1523
gutter1555
chamfer1601
channel1611
fluting1611
furrowing1611
rita1657
denervation1657
rigol1658
groove1659
riggota1661
rake1672
stria1673
champer1713
cannelure1755
gully1803
channelure1823
flute1842
rill1855
droke1880
the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun] > notch or channel
rut?1611
sluit1818
overflow channel1863
overflow1883
swilly1899
spillway1914
flute1935
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Flutes, or Flutings, are also us'd in Botany, in describing the Stems and Fruits of certain Plants, which have Furrows, analogous to those of Columns.
1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1796) III. 98 The style..has 5 grooves or flutes to receive the 5 seeds with their appendages.
1842 J. Bischoff Comprehensive Hist. Woollen Manuf. II. 393 These, instead of being wound round a roller, fall into the flutes of a fluted cylinder.
1855 J. Ogilvie Suppl. Imperial Dict. Flute, a channel in the muslin of a lady's ruffle, similar to that in a column or pillar.
1865 F. B. Palliser Hist. Lace xvi. 208 A cap of fine linen plaited in small flutes.
1878 Garnett in Encycl. Brit. VIII. 728 When it lies within the mean, or spheroidal, surface so as to form a ‘flute’, less surface is exposed by it.
1935 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 43 729 Swiftly moving sand or silt-laden water currents sometimes abrade grooves, elongated in the direction of flow, in stream boulders and in the bedrock of the stream channel... In this article the grooves are termed ‘flutes’, and the process of their formation is called ‘stream fluting’.
1963 D. W. Humphries & E. E. Humphries tr. H. Termier & G. Termier Erosion & Sedimentation 408 The lapies of karst scenery where small ridges or flutes of limestone are dissected and isolated by a surficial flow of water.
6. slang.
a. (See quot. 1699.)
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1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Flute, the Recorder of London, or of any other Town.
b. A pistol.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > pistol
pistolet1550
potguna1556
pistol?1560
snapper1587
pistoletto1647
pop1708
gun1744
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stick1781
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barker1815
young gun1822
buffer1824
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iron1828
flute1842
cannon1901
1842 S. Lover Handy Andy iii ‘I'll give it him in the pistol-arm or so’. ‘Very well, Ned. Where are the flutes?’
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a.
flute-girl n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > wind player > [noun] > flute-player
fluterc1400
flute1542
flutist1603
fluteress1611
flute-player1633
flutenist1647
tibicen1776
tibicinist1776
aulete1847
flute-girl1853
flautist1860
1853 W. J. Hickie tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. 22 Chaplets, sprats, flute-girls and black eyes.
flute-maker n.
flute-music n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > music on specific instrument > [noun] > wind music > on flute
flute-music1847
1847 F. Marryat Valerie xi, in New Monthly Mag. Feb. 185 Some flute-music.
flute-note n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [noun] > note or tone > sweet note
sweetnessc1540
dulcet?1578
flute-note1833
1833 Ld. Tennyson Blackbird 18 Now thy flute-notes are changed to coarse.
b.
flute-playing adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > [noun] > playing flute
flute-playing1831
fluting1858
1831 T. B. Macaulay in Life & Lett. (1880) I. 211 We had flute-playing by the first flute-player in England.
c.
flute-like adj.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > pleasantness of sound > [adjective] > gentle or not harsh > gentle and clear
silver1526
liquida1637
flute-like1729
fluty1823
silvery1824
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > woodwind instruments > [adjective] > flute
tibial1656
orgiastic1698
flute-like1729
flutal1794
orgiasticala1871
1729 R. Savage Wanderer v The bullfinch whistles soft his flute-like notes.
C2.
flute-bird n. Australia the piping crow ( Gymnorhina tibicen).
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Cracticidae > gymnorhina tibicen
magpie1792
piping crow1832
organ bird1847
flute-bird1862
bush-magpie1890
maggie1901
1862 H. Kendall Poems & Songs 53 The flute-bird's mellow tone.
flute-bit n. (see quot.).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > piercing or boring tools > [noun] > boring tool > for wood
stock1794
flute-bit1874
flute-tool1887
1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 893/2 Flute-bit, a wood-boring tool..used in boring..hard woods.
flute-glass n. see 3 above.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > glass
glassc888
verrea1382
Venice glass1527
rummer1625
bottle glass1626
Malaga glassa1627
flute1649
flute-glass1668
long glass1680
mum-glass1684
toasting glass1703
wine glass1709
tulip-glass1755
tun-glass1755
water glass1779
tumbler-glass1795
Madeira glass1801
tumbling glass1803
noggin glass1805
champagne glass1815
table glass1815
balloon glass1819
copita1841
firing glass1842
nobbler1842
thimble glass1843
wine1848
liqueur-glass1850
straw-stem1853
pokal1854
goblet1856
mousseline1862
pony glass1862
long-sleever1872
cocktail glass1873
champagne flute1882
yard-glass1882
sleever1896
tea-glass1898
liqueur1907
dock-glass1911
toast-master glass1916
Waterford1916
stem-glass1922
Pilsner glass1923
Amen glass1924
ballon1930
balloon goblet1931
thistle glass1935
snifter1937
balloon1951
shot-glass1955
handle1956
tulip1961
schooner1967
champagne fountain1973
1668 J. Dryden Sr Martin Mar-all v. 67 Bring two Flute-glasses and some stools.
flute-mouth n. a fish of the family Fistulariidæ.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Gasterosteiformes (sticklebacks) > [noun] > family Fistulariidae > member of (tobacco pipe-fish)
tobacco-pipe fisha1672
trumpeter1756
trumpet-fish1871
pipemouth1886
flute-mouth1887
1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 548 Flute Mouths (Fistulariidæ).
flute-organ n. (see quot. 1828).
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > musical box > [noun] > barrel-organ
hand organ1721
street organ1769
barrel organ1772
music box1773
grinding-organ1801
panharmonicon1811
flute-organ1828
orchestrino1838
orchestrion1838
organ1841
piano organ1842
autophone1850
grind-organ1888
1828 T. Busby Mus. Man. Flute Organ, a little barrel-organ, the compass and tone of the notes of which render it imitative of the German flute.
flute-player n. (a) one who plays the flute; (b) a South American wren of the genus Cyphorinus.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > wind player > [noun] > flute-player
fluterc1400
flute1542
flutist1603
fluteress1611
flute-player1633
flutenist1647
tibicen1776
tibicinist1776
aulete1847
flute-girl1853
flautist1860
the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Troglodytidae > genus Cyphorhinus
organ bird1847
flute-player1875
1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix i. vii. iii. 652 A flute-player, a fidler, a harper.
1875 H. W. Longfellow Pandora vi Hear how sweetly overhead the feathered flute-players pipe their songs of love.
flute-stop n. = sense 2.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop > flute-tone stops
flute1613
flute-stop1819
flute-work1879
1819 A. Rees Cycl. XIV Flute-stop on an Organ.
flute-tool n. (cf. flute-bit n.).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > piercing or boring tools > [noun] > boring tool > for wood
stock1794
flute-bit1874
flute-tool1887
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 July 5/2 Chisels, modelling tools, files, flute tools [etc.].
flute-work n. (see quot. 1879).
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop > flute-tone stops
flute1613
flute-stop1819
flute-work1879
1879 Hopkins in Grove Dict. Music I. 538 Flute-work, under this head are grouped all the flue~stops of whatever kind, shape, or tone, that are not classed as Principal-work, or Gedact-work.
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slang. The penis. Also with modifying word, as in one-holed flute, silent flute, skin flute, etc.Frequently with punning reference to sense 1a, as in to play the flute, etc. In quot. 1611 as part of an extended double entendre.
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the world > life > the body > sex organs > male sex organs > [noun] > penis
weapona1000
tarsec1000
pintleOE
cock?c1335
pillicock?c1335
yard1379
arrowa1382
looma1400
vergea1400
instrumentc1405
fidcocka1475
privya1500
virile member (or yard)?1541
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pillock1568
penis1578
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needle1592
bauble1593
dildo1597
nag1598
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rubigo?a1600
Jack1604
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propagator1670
membrum virile1672
nervea1680
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Roger1689
pudding1693
handle?1731
machine1749
shaft1772
jock1790
poker1811
dickyc1815
Johnny?1833
organ1833
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root1846
Johnson1863
Peter1870
John Henry1874
dickc1890
dingusc1890
John Thomasc1890
old fellowc1890
Aaron's rod1891
dingle-dangle1893
middle leg1896
mole1896
pisser1896
micky1898
baby-maker1902
old man1902
pecker1902
pizzle1902
willy1905
ding-dong1906
mickey1909
pencil1916
dingbatc1920
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Johna1922
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tube1922
ding1926
pee-pee1927
prong1927
pud1927
hose1928
whang1928
dong1930
putz1934
porkc1935
wiener1935
weenie1939
length1949
tadger1949
winkle1951
dinger1953
winky1954
dork1961
virilia1962
rig1964
wee-wee1964
Percy1965
meat tool1966
chopper1967
schlong1967
swipe1967
chode1968
trouser snake1968
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tonk1970
noonies1972
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monkey1978
langer1983
wanker1987
1611 T. Coryate Odcombian Banquet sig. B4 In vaine here doth Coryate pipe and dispute, His wench was, Iewes will not be caught with his flute. Or, Thy Cortizan clipt thee, ware Tom, I aduise thee, And flie from the Iewes, lest they circumcise thee.
1730 Musical Misc. III. 96 Said he, My Dear,..I have a Flute, which, tho' 'tis mute, May play a Tune to please ye... The silent Flute's the sweetest.
1893 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang III. 40/1 To play a tune on the one-holed flute, to have connection.
1969 P. Boyle All looks Yellow to Jaundiced Eye 55 A copper is not at his best kneeling on the floor of a piss house with his flute hanging out.
2011 A. Ryan Frozen Stiff (2012) xxiii. 184 I don't want David dead, even if I did secretly wish it..a few months ago after catching my coworker playing his skin flute.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
fluten.2
/fluːt/, U.S. /flut/ Nautical.
1. (See quots.)
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > other sailing vessels
balinger1391
caliphe1393
buss1471
mahonnet1524
flute1567
mahone1572
shallopa1578
prahu1582
caïque1666
bullenger1670
hogboat1784
mistico1792
water-manikin1796
mistic1828
sailing-packet1842
sharpie1860
tjalk1861
botter1880
scow schooner1885
scow sloop1885
ghoster1886
sailing-trawler1891
sharp1891
skiff1891
palari1936
gulet1986
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 91 The best..are those that be called Flutæ, in Greke Plootai, good saylers or fluites.
1698 tr. F. Froger Relation Voy. Coasts Afr. 107 A Portuguese Flute, that carried Negros to All-Saints Bay.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Flute, or Fluyt, is also a kind of long Vessel, with flat Ribs, or Floor Timbers; round behind, and swelled in the Middle.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Flute or Fluyt, a pink-rigged fly-boat, the after~part of which is round-ribbed.
2.
a. A vessel of war, carrying only part of her armament, to serve as a transport.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > ship transporting troops or stores
flute1666
transport1694
transport-ship1694
transport-vessel1700
troop-boat1816
lobster-smack1829
lobster-box1833
troop-ship1861
troop-steamer1862
trooper1872
1666 London Gaz. No. 77/2 Two Men of War..with three Flutes of 18 or 20 Guns.
1799 Sir S. Smith 6 Feb. in Ld. Nelson Disp. & Lett. (1845) III. 281 (note) Captain Hood's list reported them to be eight in addition to two Flutes.
1876 J. Grant Hist. India I. xlvi. 231/2 Twenty-six sail, including eleven line-of-battle ships..six flutes and transports.
b. Hence armed en flute (French armé en flûte) said of such a vessel.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [adjective] > serving as transport
armed en flute1799
1799 Naval Chron. 1 258 The Sceptre, 64 guns, armed en flute.
1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster II. xviii. 280 Some large Dutch store-ships and vessels armed en flute.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
flutev.
/fluːt/, U.S. /flut/ 1. quasi-transitive.1866 M. Arnold Thyrsis ix, in Macmillan's Mag. Apr. 451 And flute his friend, like Orpheus, from the dead.
a. intransitive. To play upon a flute or pipe.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > play wind instrument [verb (intransitive)] > play flute
flutec1405
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 91 Syngynge he was or floytynge al the day.
1485 W. Caxton tr. Paris & Vienne (1957) 76 Thys is he that so swetely songe and floyted.
1775 R. B. Sheridan Songs Duenna i.1 Fiddling, fluting, rhyming, ranting.
1842 Ld. Tennyson To E. L. vi To him who sat upon the rocks, And fluted to the morning sea.
1875 M. E. Braddon Strange World i Corydon fluting sweetly on his tuneful pipe.
b. To whistle or sing in flute-like tones.
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the world > animals > birds > [verb (intransitive)] > make sound
to sing awk1600
warble1605
snapper1664
flute1800
note1906
wing-clap1964
1800 J. Hurdis Favorite Village iv. 206 And ouzle fluting with melodious pipe.
1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. iv. iv. 216 Fluting like woodlarks, tender and low.
1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel I. xvii. 266 The blackbird fluted, calling to her with thrice mellow note.
2. transitive. To play (an air, etc.) on a flute; to sing in flute-like notes.
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the world > animals > birds > [verb (transitive)] > to make sound
record?a1534
pipec1751
flute1842
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (transitive)]
singc825
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chant1566
modulate?1567
carol?1578
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lyrica1704
vocalize1782
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flute1842
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > play wind instrument [verb (transitive)] > play (a tune, etc.) on flute
flute1842
1842 Ld. Tennyson Morte d'Arthur in Poems (new ed.) II. 16 Some..swan..fluting a wild carol ere her death.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess iv. 71 Men, That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.
1867 R. W. Emerson May-day & Other Pieces 6 The redwing flutes his o-ka-lee.
3.
a. To form flutes (flute n.1 4, 5) in; to furnish with flutings; to arrange a dress, etc. in flutes.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > tailor or make clothes [verb (transitive)] > other
fur13..
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set1530
tuft1535
vent1547
ruff1548
spangle1548
string1548
superbody1552
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flute1578
seam1590
seed1604
overtrim1622
ruffle1625
tag1627
furbelow1701
tuck1709
flounce1711
pipe1841
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stag1902
create1908
pin-fit1926
ease1932
pre-board1940
post-board1963
the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > form a recess in [verb (transitive)] > form (a groove) > make grooves in
gutter1387
groop1412
channel?1440
chamfer1565
flute1578
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entrench1607
furrow1609
trench1624
groove1686
striate1709
quirk1797
stripe1842
engroove1880
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. xiv. 468 Bockwheate hath round stalkes chanellured and fluted (or forowed and crested).
1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 148 The whole outward Superficies..is curiously adorned or fluted with little channels.
1723 E. Chambers tr. S. Le Clerc Treat. Archit. I. 79 It had been better..to have fluted the upper part.
1853 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 601 The trunk appears as if fluted.
1862 M. T. Morrall Hist. Needle-making 37 He also took out a patent for grooving or fluting the sides of sail needles.
1862 J. Tyndall Mountaineering in 1861 ii. 12 Planing and fluting and scoring the rocks.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. ii. x. 255 A hatband of wholesale capacity which was fluted behind.
b. intransitive. To hang or jut out in flutings.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > project or be prominent [verb (intransitive)] > in flutes
flute1896
1896 Sun 11 Dec. 1/7 Arranged with the usual side~pieces, which flute out gracefully to the lower edge.
1908 M. Findlater & J. Findlater Crossriggs xxxi Her skirts fluted out about her like the ruffled petals of a flower.
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