flute

(noun, verb)

noun

1. a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown

Definition categories: man–made, wood, woodwind

2. a tall narrow wineglass

Definition categories: man–made, wineglass

3. a groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column)

Similar word(s): fluting

Definition categories: man–made, channel, groove

verb

1. form flutes in

Definition categories: contact, crimp, pinch