lute

v. play a lute; seal holes with putty; smooth with a trowel

n. stringed instrument with a pear-shaped body and a long fretted neck; sealing compound; tool for spreading and smoothing concrete

Lute can generally refer to any plucked string instrument with a neck (either fretted or unfretted) and a deep round back, or a specific instrument from the family of European lutes. The European lute and the Near-Eastern oud both descend from a common ancestor, with diverging evolutionary paths. The lute is used in a great variety of instrumental music from the early renaissance to the late baroque eras. It is also an accompanying instrument, especially in vocal works, often realizing a basso continuo or playing a written-out accompaniment.
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v. lute, play a lute; seal holes with putty; smooth with a trowel

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(v. t.)
To play on a lute, or as on a lute.
  

(v. t.)
To close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint.
  

(v. i.)
To sound, as a lute. Piers Plowman. Keats.
  

(n.)
A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or "sides," arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed.
  

(n.)
A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold.
  

(n.)
A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
  

(n.)
A cement of clay or other tenacious infusible substance for sealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; -- called also luting.