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▪ I. fluting, vbl. n.|ˈfluːtɪŋ| [f. flute v. + -ing1.] The action of the vb. flute in various senses. 1. The action of playing on the flute or singing in flute-like tones; an instance of this.
1481Caxton Reynard (Arb.) 110 Thou losest thy flateryng and swete floytyng. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. II. vi. vii. 108 Fritz's love of music, expecially of fluting. 1874L. Morris Poems, To a Lost Love i, The earliest flutings of the lark. 1882Gosse in Grosart's Spenser III. p. xxxix, The delicious flutings of Herrick. 2. The action of making flutes in columns, or in frills, ruffles, etc.; ornamentation with flutes; the result of this action, fluted work. Also attrib. in names of appliances for fluting, as fluting-cylinder, fluting-iron, fluting-lathe, fluting-machine, fluting-plane, etc.
1728R. Morris Ess. Anc. Archit. 81, I must just explain..the foregoing Plate concerning Fluting or Grooving. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xix. 99 Granite, on which the flutings and groovings are magnificently preserved. 1864Webster, Fluting-plane (Carp.), a plane with curved face, used in grooving flutes. 1878Bell Gegenbaur's Comp. Anat. 104 Provided with various sculpturings, flutings, spines, ridges, and so on. 1879Sir G. G. Scott Lect. Archit. I. 87 Singular ornamentation..by means of fluting. 3. = flute n.1 4, 5. Also collect.
1611Cotgr., Caneleure, a fluting, channelling, straking, furrowing. 1613–1639I. Jones in Leoni Palladio's Archit. (1742) II. 50 The fluting in front are deep half Circles. 1723Chambers tr. Le Clerc's Treat. Archit. I. 31 The Flutings of this Column ought not to exceed twenty. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict., s.v. Mushroom, A..Cap or Head, garnished sometimes underneath with several Flutings. 1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 308 Sometimes flutings of the semi-ellipsis shape, with fillets, were adopted. 1851Richardson Geol. (1855) 445 The trees..now appear completely decorticated, and present various flutings. 1869Boutell Arms & Arm. v. 76 The corslet and cuirass..sometimes show no other decoration than the bold flutings at their base. 1872C. King Mountain. Sierra Nev. iii. 70 Every fluting of the great valley was in itself a considerable cañon. 1880Baring-Gould Mehalah II. vi. 105 She ran her fingers through the flutings of her frills. ▪ II. fluting, ppl. a.|ˈfluːtɪŋ| [f. as prec. + -ing2.] That flutes, in senses of the vb.
1794D'Israeli Cur. Lit. (1848) I. 85 The genius which thus could form a clock in time formed a fluting automaton. 1852Seidel Organ 78 The tone of the organ is at one time full and round, at another..fluting and whispering. |