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Lute
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 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 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 chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear-shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard wordnet
- 4 A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc. countable, uncountable
- 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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- 6 A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth. countable, uncountable
- 1 To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.
"Knaves are men / That lute and flute fantastic tenderness."
- 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
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.
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.
From Old French lut, ultimately from Latin lutum (“mud”).
From Old French lut, ultimately from Latin lutum (“mud”).
* 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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