• (RP) IPA: /l(j)uːt/
• (GA) IPA: /luːt/

lute (plural lutes)

1. 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.

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• archlute
• lutanist, lutenist
• luter
• lutherie
• luthier
• lutist

• French: luth
• German: Laute
• Italian: liuto
• Portuguese: alaúde
• Russian: лю́тня
• Spanish: laúd

lute (lutes, present participle luting; past and past participle luted)

1. To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.
   • 1847, Alfred Tennyson, The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 2024748 ↗, (please specify ):

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     Knaves are men / That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.

lute

1. Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.
2. A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
3. (brickmaking) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth.

lute (lutes, present participle luting; past and past participle luted)

1. To fix or fasten something with lute.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘A Friend's Friend’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society 2005, page 179:

     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.

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