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flute cylindrical musical wind-instrument with holes along its length XIV; channel, furrow, groove XVII. The earliest forms are flowte, floite (XIV), in XVI–XVII often fluit — OF. flahute, fleüte, flaüte (mod. flûte), prob. — Pr. flaüt, perh. blending of flaujol (cf. FLAGEOLET) with laüt LUTE1.
So vb. XIV; channel, groove XVI.

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