fluting
fluting is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively; as, the fluting of a column or pilaster; the fluting of a lady's ruffle. Fluting iron, a laundry iron for fluting ruffles; -- called also Italian iron, or gaufering iron. Knight. -- Fluting lathe, a machine for forming spiral flutes, as on balusters, table legs, etc.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- bisulcate
- bisulcous
- bite
- canaliculated
- chamfer
- channel
- corduroy
- costate
- crack
- cradle
- dike
- ditch
- dyke
- engrave
- etch
- flute
- fluted
- fosse
- furrow
- groove
- gutter
- hole
- incise
- incision
- interval
- kennel
- moat
- plow
- ravine
- ribbed
- road
- rut
- score
- scratch
- slit
- streak
- striated
- sulcated
- sulcus
- trench
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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