<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>A musical wind instrument consisting of a tube with a series of fingerholes or keys, in which the wind is directed against a sharp edge, either directly, as in the modern transverse flute, or through a flue, as in the recorder.</li><li>An organ stop with wide flue pipes, having a flutelike tone.</li><li>Architecture: A channel, groove, or furrow, as on the shaft of a column.</li><li>Any groove or furrow, as in a ruffle of cloth or on a piecrust.</li><li>One of the helical grooves of a twist drill.</li><li>A slender, footed wineglass of the 17th century, having a tall, conical bowl.</li><li>A similar stemmed glass, used especially for champagne.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb:</strong></p><ul><li>(Used without object) To produce flutelike sounds.</li><li>To play on a flute.</li><li>(Of a metal strip or sheet) To kink or break in bending.</li><li>(Used with object) To utter in flutelike tones.</li><li>To form longitudinal flutes or furrows in: To flute a piecrust.</li></ul>