lute
nounEtymology
From Middle French lut (modern luth), from Old French leüt, probably from Old Occitan laüt, from Arabic اَلْعُود (al-ʕūd, “wood”) (probably representing an Andalusian Arabic or North African pronunciation). Doublet of oud, lavta, and laouto.
Definitions
A fretted stringed instrument, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or…
A fretted stringed instrument, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.
- Knaves are men / That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.
- in the air , her new voice luting soft
Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something…
Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.
- He employed a mixture of flour and white of egg spread upon a linen cloth to cement cracked glass vessels, and used other lutes for similar purposes.
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A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth.
To fix or fasten something with lute.
- To protect everything till it dried, a man […] luted a big blue paper cap from a cracker, with meringue-cream, low down on Jevon's forehead.
A surname.
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA