1. A high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown
   - transverse flute 
2. A tall narrow wineglass
   - flute glass, champagne flute 
3. A groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column)
   - fluting

1. Form flutes in

Derived forms: fluted, flutes, fluting

See also: flutist [N. Amer]

Type of: channel, crimp, groove, pinch, wineglass, wood, woodwind, woodwind instrument

Encyclopedia: Flute Flute, Viola and Harp

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• breech-loading
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