Lute

What do we mean by lute?

A substance, such as dried clay or cement, used to pack and seal pipe joints and other connections or coat a porous surface in order to make it tight. noun

To coat, pack, or seal with lute. transitive verb

A stringed instrument having a body shaped like a pear sliced lengthwise and a neck with a fretted fingerboard that is usually bent just below the tuning pegs. noun

To play on or as on a lute.

To play the lute.

To sound sweetly, like a lute.

A medieval musical instrument, the type of the class which has strings stretched over a resonant body and a long fretted neck, and which is played by twanging or snapping the strings with the fingers. noun

To close or coat with lute; smear with any adhesive substance for the purpose of closing cracks or joints.

A Middle English form of lite .

A Middle English form of lout .

A composition of clay or other tenacious substance used for stopping the joints of vessels, as in chemical operations or in founding, so closely as to prevent the escape or entrance of air. noun

An external coating of clay, sand, or other substance applied to a glass retort, to enable it to support a high temperature without fusing or cracking. noun

A brickmakers’ straight-edge, a tool used to strike off surplus clay from a brick-mold, and to level the molding-floor. noun

A rubber packing-ring compressed between the lip and the lid of a jar to exclude the air. noun

To close or seal with lute transitive verb

A cement of clay or other tenacious infusible substance for sealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; -- called also luting. noun

A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc. noun

A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold. noun

To sound, as a lute. intransitive verb

To play on a lute, or as on a lute. transitive verb

A fretted stringed instrument of European origin, 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.

Words that are spelled similarly to lute:
lute.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word lute:
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Words that rhyme with lute:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe lute:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective lute:
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Consonant match to lute:
lot, light, let, late, lite, lit, loot, lout, lat, leet, lott, latke, lotte, lett, leyte, litt, laut, lette, leete, leite, leight.

Words that sound like lute:
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