FLUTE

I. noun Etymology: Middle English floute, from Anglo-French floute, fleute, from Old French flaüte, probably of imitative origin Date: 14th century 1. recorder 3, a keyed woodwind instrument consisting of a cylindrical tube which is stopped at one end and which has a side hole over which air is blown to produce the tone and having a range from middle C upward for three octaves, something long and slender: as, a tall slender wineglass, a grooved pleat (as on a hat brim), a rounded groove, ~like adjective fluty or ~y adjective II. verb (~d; fluting) Date: 14th century intransitive verb to play a ~, to produce a ~like sound, transitive verb to utter with a ~like sound, to form ~s in, ~r noun