Meaning

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 along the neck and parallel to the soundboard..

Definitions by Sense

1. 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 along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
2. To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.
3. Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.
4. A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
5. (brickmaking) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth.
6. To fix or fasten something with lute.

Example Sentences

Knaves are men / That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.

in the air , her new voice luting soft

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.

To 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.

Word Forms

• lutes
• luting
• luted

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When Should You Use Lute?

Use lute when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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