flute : Idioms & Phrases

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Armed en flute

  • . (Naut.) See under Flute.
Webster 1913

Armed en flûte

  • (Nav.), partially armed.
Webster 1913

champagne flute

  • noun a tall narrow wineglass
    champagne flute; flute.
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fipple flute

  • noun a tubular wind instrument with 8 finger holes and a fipple mouthpiece
    fipple flute; recorder; fipple pipe.
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flute a bec

Flûte` à bec" (Also<
  • Flute a bec
  • Flûte à bec
)
Etymology
F.
Definitions
  1. (Mus.) A beak flute, an older form of the flute, played with a mouthpiece resembling a beak, and held like a flageolet.
Webster 1913

Flute bit

  • a boring tool for piercing ebony, rosewood, and other hard woods.
Webster 1913

flute glass

  • noun a tall narrow wineglass
    champagne flute; flute.
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Flute pipe

  • an organ pipe having a sharp lip or wind-cutter which imparts vibrations to column of air in the pipe.
Webster 1913

flute player

  • noun someone who plays the flute
    flautist; flutist.
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nose flute

  • noun a flute that is played by blowing through the nostrils (used in some Asian countries)
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Octave flute

  • (Mus.), a small flute, the tones of which range an octave higher than those of the German or ordinary flute; called also piccolo. See Piccolo.
Webster 1913

straight flute

  • noun a rock drill with flutes that are straight
    straight flute.
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straight-fluted drill

  • noun a rock drill with flutes that are straight
    straight flute.
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transverse flute

  • noun a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown
    flute.
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vertical flute

  • noun a tubular wind instrument with 8 finger holes and a fipple mouthpiece
    fipple flute; recorder; fipple pipe.
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