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
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 16219th 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
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