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n (context|musical instruments) A woodwind instrument consisting of a metal, wood or bamboo tube with a row of circular holes and played by blowing across a hole in the side of one end or through a narrow channel at one end against a sharp edge, while covering none, some or all of the holes with the fingers to vary the note played.

n A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.

n A helical groove going up a drill bit which allows the drilled out material to come up out of the hole as it's drilled.

n (architecture|firearms) A semicylindrical vertical groove in a pillar, or a similar groove in a rifle barrel used to cut down the weight.

v (intransitive) To play on a |flute.

v (intransitive) To make a flutelike sound.

v (transitive) To utter with a flutelike sound.

v (transitive) To form flutes or channels in (as in a column, a ruffle, etc.); to cut a semicylindrical vertical groove in (as in a pillar, etc.).