I. ˈlüt, usu -üd.+V noun
( -s )
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French lut, leut, from Old Provençal laut, from Arabic al-'ūd the oud, from al the + 'ūd oud
1. : a stringed musical instrument of Oriental origin that has a large pear-shaped body and a neck with a fretted fingerboard having from 6 to 13 pairs of strings tuned by pegs set in the head and is played by plucking the strings with the fingers
2. : a harpsichord stop
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II. verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
intransitive verb
1. : to play a lute
2. : to sound like a lute
transitive verb
: to play on a lute : express by means of a lute
III. noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin lutum mud, clay — more at pollute
1. : a substance (as cement or clay) for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to produce imperviousness to gas or liquid
2. : a packing ring (as of rubber for a fruit jar)
3. : seal 2c(2)
IV. transitive verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
Etymology: Middle English luten, from Latin lutare, from lutum mud, clay
1. : to seal or cover with lute
lute a pipe joint
luted his boat with grafting wax — R.L.Cook
specifically : to fill (a crevice in half-dry ceramic ware) with wet clay
2. : to fasten with lute
in the neck of the steel cylinder … there was luted a vertical glass tube — P.G.Tait
V. noun
( -s )
Etymology: Dutch loet
1. : a straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from a brick mold
2. : a usually wooden implement resembling a rake without teeth used in leveling off freshly poured concrete
VI. transitive verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
: to level off (freshly poured concrete) with a lute