flute

1. (n) (music) A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge of the holes, often tuned by plugging one or more holes with a finger; the Western concert flute, a transverse side-blown flute of European origin. 2. (n) A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne. 3. (n) (colloquial) A recorder, also a woodwind instrument. 4. (v) (intransitive) To play on a flute. 5. (v) (intransitive) To make a flutelike sound. 6. (v) (transitive) To utter with a flutelike sound. 7. (v) (transitive) To form flutes or channels in (as in a column, a ruffle, etc.); to cut a semicylindrical vertical groove in (as in a pillar, etc.). 8. (n) A lengthwise groove, such as one of the lengthwise grooves on a classical column, or a groove on a cutting tool (such as a drill bit, endmill, or reamer), which helps to form both a cutting edge and a channel through which chips can escape. 9. (n) (architecture, firearms) A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight. 10. (n) A long French bread roll, baguette. 11. (n) An organ stop with a flute-like sound. 12. (n) A shuttle in weaving tapestry etc. 13. (n) A kind of flyboat; a storeship.