A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music
Used instead of five in radio communications to avoid confusion with fire.
To play this instrument.
An organ stop with a flute-like sound.
A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.
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
A shuttle in weaving tapestry etc.
A kind of flyboat; a storeship.
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.
A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.
A long French bread roll, baguette.
A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.
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.).
To make a flutelike sound.
To play on a flute.
To utter with a flutelike sound.