fluting

Making a sound like a flute.

Adjective

  1. Making a sound like a flute.

Noun

  1. A decoration consisting of parallel, normally vertical, flutes (grooves) incised into the surface.
    • Flutings also adorn the short architraves each side of the fanlight, and the abacus of the pilaster columns which is carried across a supplementary lintel in front of the lintel proper, the latter being several inches...
  2. The act of making such grooves.
  3. A flute-like sound.
  4. A fluted pleat; a small, rounded or pressed pleat used as trimming on a garment.
  5. The erosional process by which a well-jointed coarse-grained rock, such as granite or gneiss, surface develops a set of flutes.

Forms

flutings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of flute