Verb (used with object) : to flute a piecrust. From Dictionary.com.
That spiral fluting is fugly, period. From Wordnik.com. [Rifles of Interest, Vol. 1] Reference
Army came "fluting" among us, but he thought that the Army's success would be as "fleeting" as it was "fluting.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 16, 1892] Reference
The sounds they make, a sort of fluting and piping. From Wordnik.com. [First Men in the Moon] Reference
Figure 4 Graph of cutting speeds for fluting machines. From Wordnik.com. [6. Basic Terms of Cutting] Reference
The lodge filled with droning, fluting, coughing talk. From Wordnik.com. [The Rebel Worlds]
And over marsh and meadowland the frogs are fluting now. From Wordnik.com. [England over Seas] Reference
As he lowered his head, he heard a fluting cry above him. From Wordnik.com. [A Spell For Chameleon]
A mellow fluting broke the hush, -- and Caruso was in song!. From Wordnik.com. [Polly and the Princess] Reference
"You have a vegetable head?" the harpy retorted in a fluting tone. From Wordnik.com. [The Source of Magic]
The fluting notes were like sunlight on water, brilliant, teasing. From Wordnik.com. [Fire Dancer]
An organ was fluting its merry little jig further down the street. From Wordnik.com. [The Years] Reference
Lady Riganone's fluting chuckles and her chapeau tinkled together. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Torc]
Alice smiled but went on fluting the edge of an apple pie with a fork. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
To do this, twist drill fluting cutters shall be used as milling tool. From Wordnik.com. [5. Milling of elongated slots] Reference
But Demochares had come in on cue, and was fluting gravely as Telephassa. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
Pied pipers fluting the sweet chloroform music of corporate-controlled pap. From Wordnik.com. [The Howling Days of Madness] Reference
The fluting sounds were an odd contrast to the mood of aggression elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
Trumpeting and fluting rose early on the morn, as sign that they should ride. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied] Reference
Mature koa boles are commonly forking or fluting and ofen suffer from heart rot. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 8] Reference
Mature koa boles are commonly forking or fluting and often suffer from heart rot. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 2] Reference
These houses were carved on the outside with graceful fluting, whorls, and bas-reliefs. From Wordnik.com. [Riverwind the Plainsman]
The undulating fluting on the panels and the sculpture on the railing are very graceful. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
"I imagine you wouldn't say that to-night," retorted Betty, fluting the edges of her pie crust. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point Or a Wreck and a Rescue] Reference
This was no high-pitched fluting from aliens deprived of their sport, but a hissing nightmare cry. From Wordnik.com. [Star Born] Reference
The fluting was sometimes filled with metal husks at top and bottom, leaving a plain stretch between. From Wordnik.com. [Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today] Reference
This was no high-pitched fluting from the aliens deprived of their sport, but a hissing nightmare cry. From Wordnik.com. [Star Flight]
This is made with two layers of kraft paper and between them, a central corrugating (or fluting) material. From Wordnik.com. [3 Packaging materials] Reference
Above the cornice, the grooves of the triglyphs carry on the lines of fluting from the columns towards the roof. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Shape this paste into a fence on the inside round of a shallow dish, fluting it with the round handle of a knife. From Wordnik.com. [My Pet Recipes, Tried and True Contributed by the Ladies and Friends of St. Andrew's Church, Quebec] Reference
A word, a grasp, she was leaning alone over the old stone wall, the birds were piping and fluting about her, and Ray was gone. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864] Reference
The exquisite voice rose and fell in silvery cadence, the soft notes fluting out through the vast space and reaching straight to. From Wordnik.com. [Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley] Reference
The best quality board has unbleached kraft paper with equal thickness either side of the fluting and uses no re-cycled material. From Wordnik.com. [3 Packaging materials] Reference
If you have any pretty-shaped little tin dishes, without fluting, to mould and bake them in, they are very little trouble to make. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Cookery] Reference
On examining this column carefully, I found that the fluting, about half way down, was finished and polished, and a part in the rough. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir] Reference
The Aurignacian is a smaller flake industry, with many lumps more or less conical, and often with careful parallel flaking or fluting. From Wordnik.com. [How to Observe in Archaeology] Reference
There was a fluting cheer from them as they achieved their objective, while Goody, Hannah, and the battered troops looked down in dismay. From Wordnik.com. [Pet Peeve]
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