a musical wind instrument consisting of a tube with a series of fingerholes or keys, in which the wind is directed against a sharp edge, either directly, as in the modern transverse flute, or through a flue, as in the recorder.

an organ stop with wide flue pipes, having a flutelike tone.

Architecture, Furniture . a channel, groove, or furrow, as on the shaft of a column.

any groove or furrow, as in a ruffle of cloth or on a piecrust.

one of the helical grooves of a twist drill.

a slender, footed wineglass of the 17th century, having a tall, conical bowl.

a similar stemmed glass, used esp. for champagne.

to produce flutelike sounds.

to play on a flute.

(of a metal strip or sheet) to kink or break in bending.

to utter in flutelike tones.

to form longitudinal flutes or furrows in

to flute a piecrust.

noun

chamfer , channel , crimp , fife , furrow , goffer , instrument , ocarina , piccolo , pipe , tube , wineglass