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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
   - transverse flute
    
2. A tall narrow wineglass
   - flute glass, champagne flute
    
3. A groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column)
   - fluting

1. Form flutes in

Derived forms: fluted, fluting, flutes

See also: flutist [N. Amer]

Type of: channel, crimp, groove, pinch, wineglass, wood, woodwind, woodwind instrument

Encyclopedia: Flute Flute, Viola and Harp