Flute bit, a boring tool for piercing ebony, rosewood, and other hard
woods. -- Flute pipe, an organ pipe having a sharp lip or wind-cutter
which imparts vibrations to the column of air in the pipe. Knight.
[1913 Webster]
Flute (flt), n. [Cf. F. fl˚te a transport, D. fluit.] A kind of
flyboat; a storeship.
Armed en fl˚te (&?;) (Nav.), partially armed.
Flute (?), v. i. [OE. flouten, floiten, OF. fla¸ter, fle¸ter, flouster,
F. fl˚ter, cf. D. fluiten; ascribed to an assumed LL. flautare,
flatuare, fr. L. flatus a blowing, fr. flare to blow. Cf. Flout,
Flageolet, Flatulent.] To play on, or as on, a flute; to make a
flutelike sound.
Flute, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fluted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fluting (?).] 1.
To play, whistle, or sing with a clear, soft note, like that of a
flute.
Knaves are men, That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.
Tennyson.
The redwing flutes his o-ka-lee.
Emerson.