present participle of flute

(architecture, sculpture) A decoration consisting of parallel, normally vertical, flutes (grooves) incised into the surface. / The act of making such grooves. / A flute-like sound.

Making a sound like a flute.

plural of fluting

A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge of the holes, often tuned by plugging one or more holes with a finger; the Western concert flute, a transverse side-blown flute of European origin.

A kind of flyboat; a storeship.

(intransitive) To play on a flute. / (intransitive) To make a flutelike sound. / (transitive) To utter with a flutelike sound.

simple past tense and past participle of flute

Having flutes or grooves, either for decoration or to trim weight. / (Ireland, slang) Drunk; intoxicated.

plural of flute