Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who plays on the flute; a flute-player.
- noun One who makes grooves or flutes.
- noun In laundry-work, a hand-or power-machine, consisting essentially of a pair of corrugated rolls, used in forming flutings in fabrics and clothing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who plays on the flute; a flutist or flautist.
- noun One who makes grooves or flutings.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who plays on the
flute ; aflutist orflautist . - noun One who makes grooves or flutings.
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Examples
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Finnegans Wake 2006
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The shepherd with his staff, obliged those nearest to him to move on; they obeyed; but no sooner did the fluter begin to play, than his innocent audience again returned to him.
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To return to our Egistus, the fluter; it was remarkable that in becoming more insupportable, the traitor put on the appearance of complaisance.
The Confessions of J J Rousseau Rousseau, Jean Jacques 1896
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Mountain, the champion phrase-fluter of the irrigated meadow in which he and a number of his comrades had found a summer home.
Birds of the Rockies 1896
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On either side were two companies of laundry-maids, preceded by the chief crimper and fluter, supporting a long Ancestral Line, on which depended the family linen, and under which the youthful lord of the manor passed into the halls of his fathers.
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers Bret Harte 1869
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On either side were two companies of laundry-maids, preceded by the chief crimper and fluter, supporting a long Ancestral Line, on which depended the family linen, and under which the youthful lord of the manor passed into the halls of his fathers.
Condensed Novels Bret Harte 1869
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The fluter played still more sweet and beautiful strains.
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The shepherd, with his staff, now obliged them to move on; but no sooner did the fluter begin to play again, than his interested audience returned to him.
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To return to our Egistus, the fluter; it was remarkable that in becoming more insupportable, the traitor put on the appearance of complaisance.
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To return to our Egistus, the fluter; it was remarkable that in becoming more insupportable, the traitor put on the appearance of complaisance.
The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau — Volume 02 Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1745
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