lute
Collocations
4ADJ.
fantastic
VERB + LUTE
'welcome, like, play, played, playing, plays, saying, taking
LUTE + NOUN
', flute, guitar, ones, player, trees
PREP.
during, in, on, with, without
Definitions
noun
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 a
verb
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
noun
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.
A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth.
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Synonyms
noun — a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface
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6Knaves are men / That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.
Wiktionaryin the air , her new voice luting soft
WiktionaryHe 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.
WiktionaryTo 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.
WiktionaryShe took her lute and, without saying anything to anyone, she went forth into the wide world.
Tatoeba · #4600272Taking her lute in her hand, she began to play so beautifully that one felt as though one could never hear enough.
Tatoeba · #4600276