Defn: To cut with reeding or fluting on the edge of, as coins, the heads of screws, etc.
Fluting iron, a laundry iron for fluting ruffles; -- called also Italian iron, or gaufering iron.
Gauffering iron, a kind of fluting iron for fabrics.
Fluting lathe, a machine for forming spiral flutes, as on balusters, table legs, etc.
Pho, you have quenched my Komos by first frown, Struck dead all joyance: not a fluting puffs From idle cheekband!
This was no high-pitched fluting from aliens deprived of their sport, but a hissing nightmare cry.
There were four of them in the group ahead, escorted by two of the males, and the high fluting of their voices resounded along the corridor as might the cheeping of birds.
It was May again, and the pipes of Pan werefluting the ancient songs in the ancient racial fields of the memory.
A blackbird was fluting after a shower, for the sky was transient blue with the dark rags of the squall flying fast over the hill towards London.
She was like the flutingof a bird; she was clear melody.
I never saw anyone who did up laces and embroideries as you do, and the fluting is simply perfect; the only trouble is a little too much starch, my dear.
Gervaise undressed her husband and tucked him up in bed as if he had been a child and then returned to her fluting irons in time to still a grand dispute that was going on about an iron that had not been properly cleaned.
She used her fluting iron for a minute and then said quietly: "There is no need of being offended by anything a man does when he is in this state.
Really," said his wife, looking up from her fluting iron, "I think you had best go to bed.
There were tender littlefluting sounds here and there and everywhere, as if scores of birds were beginning to tune up for a concert.
The reason that the double fluting call of the cuckoo is not mimicked by other birds is that they can't; because that peculiar sound is not in their register.
What this young Irishman, fluting it through Europe some five years before, had not learned about the 'Condition of Polite Learning' in its principal countries, might fill a ponderous folio.
It is perfectly plain except for some slight fluting on the mittened gauntlets, made to look as if fingered, and on the square-toed sollerets.
This combines most splendidly picturesque outlines with graceful fan or shell-like ridgings, which please the more when examined critically, since every curve and fluting serves some definite and practical end.
After a dozen bars thefluting notes of a celestial chorus begin gliding in, and then we have an example of that naif mediaevalism at which the second part of "Gerontius" here and there hints.
The general intonation of the choir was better than on any previous occasion, all the delicate fluting rapture of the celestial choruses at the end sounding wonderfully sweet and showing not the least trace of fatigue.
Through the steam and odours of the interrupted meal the attack crashed forward, till the sortie party, breathless, with a queer glee flutingat their hearts, found themselves at the far side of the town.
And now the little, fluting note of trust came to him through the havoc.
It is only one aspect of her, however, the pagan side, which sets Pan a-fluting in the thickets.
The columns were set up in an unfluted state, the fluting being added after the pillar was complete.
It was as if a hawk had acquired the utterly useless trick of fluting like a nightingale, and being himself wholly without imagination, he could not comprehend it in the smallest degree.
More refined sections, as that of the fluting of a Doric shaft, are only of use near the eye and in beautiful stone; and the pursuit of them was one of the many errors of later Gothic.
The small shafto supporting these capitals are of infinite variety of design, with spirals, chevrons, fluting and vertical mouldings of many kinds.
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