LUTE

lute

(noun) chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear-shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard

lute, luting

(noun) a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

lute (plural lutes)

A fretted stringed instrument of European origin, 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 along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.

Coordinate term: guitar

Verb

lute (third-person singular simple present lutes, present participle luting, simple past and past participle luted)

To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.

Etymology 2

Noun

lute (countable and uncountable, plural lutes)

Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.

A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.

(brickmaking) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth.

Verb

lute (third-person singular simple present lutes, present participle luting, simple past and past participle luted)

To fix or fasten something with lute.

Anagrams

• Tuel, tuel, tule

Proper noun

Lute (plural Lutes)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Lute is the 16219^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1780 individuals. Lute is most common among White (88.99%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Tuel, tuel, tule

Source: Wiktionary

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Lute, n. Etym: [L. lutum mud, clay: cf. OF. lut.]

1. (Chem.)

Definition: A cement of clay or other tenacious infusible substance for sealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; -- called also luting.

2. A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.

3. (Brick Making)

Definition: A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold.

Lute, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Luted; p. pr. & vb. n. Luting.]

Definition: To close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint.

Lute, n. Etym: [OF. leut, F. luth; skin to Pr. laút, It. liúto, leúto, Sp. laúd, Pg. alaude; all fr. Ar. al'; al the + ' wood, timber, trunk or branch of a tree, staff, stick, wood of aloes, lute or harp.] (Mus.)

Definition: A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or "sides," arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed.

Lute, v. i.

Definition: To sound, as a lute. Piers Plowman. Keats.

Lute, v. t.

Definition: To play on a lute, or as on a lute. Knaves are men That lute and flute fantastic tenderness. Tennyson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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