1. n. (musical instruments) 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
2. n. (musical instruments, colloquial) A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.
3. n. A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.
4. n. 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
5. n. (architecture, firearms) A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.
6. n. A long French bread roll.
7. n. An organ stop with a flute-like sound.
8. n. A shuttle in weaving tapestry etc.
9. v. (intransitive) To play on a flute.
10. v. (intransitive) To make a flutelike sound.
11. v. To utter with a flutelike sound.
12. v. 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.).
