Asmall wind instrument; a pipe with lateral holes or stops, played by blowing with the mouth, and by stopping and opening the holes with the fingers.

A channel in a column or pillar; a perpendicular furrow or cavity, cut along the shaft of a column or pilaster; so called from its resemblance to a flute. It is used chiefly in the lonic order; sometimes in the Composite and Corinthian; rarely in the Doric and Tuscan. It is called also a reed.

A long vessel or boat, with flat ribs or floor timbers, round behind, and swelled in the middle; a different orthography of float. Armed in flute. An armed ship, with her guns of the lower tier and part of those of the upper tier removed, used as a transport, is said to be armed in flute.

To play on a flute.

To form flutes or channels in a column.