Lute

Definitions

1. Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.
   countable, uncountable
2. A surname.
3. A fretted stringed instrument, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
4. A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
   countable, uncountable
5. A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“He employed a mixture of flour and white of egg spread⟳ upon a linen cloth to cement cracked glass vessels, and used other lutes for similar purposes.”

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