Lute

//luːt// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 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. 2
    Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  3. 3
    chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear-shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard wordnet
  4. 4
    A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc. countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid wordnet
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  1. 6
    A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth. countable, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.

    "Knaves are men / That lute and flute fantastic tenderness."

  2. 2
    To fix or fasten something with lute.

    "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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle French lut (modern luth), from Old French leüt, probably from Old Occitan laüt, from Arabic اَلْعُود (al-ʕūd, “wood”) (probably representing an Andalusian Arabic or North African pronunciation). Doublet of oud, lavta, and laouto.

Etymology 2

From Middle French lut (modern luth), from Old French leüt, probably from Old Occitan laüt, from Arabic اَلْعُود (al-ʕūd, “wood”) (probably representing an Andalusian Arabic or North African pronunciation). Doublet of oud, lavta, and laouto.

Etymology 3

From Old French lut, ultimately from Latin lutum (“mud”).

Etymology 4

From Old French lut, ultimately from Latin lutum (“mud”).

Etymology 5

* English surname of Old Norse origin, from lútr (“stooping”). * German surname, derived from an old Germanic name from *liudi (“people, tribe”).

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