lute /l(j)uːt/noun 4verb 2forms 3 noun4 •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. •Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.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. — 1830 •A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc. •A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth. verb2 •To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.Knaves are men / That lute and flute fantastic tenderness. — 1847 •To fix or fasten something with lute.To protect everything till it dried, a man […] luted a big blue paper cap from a cracker, with meringue-cream, low down on Jevon's forehead. — 1888 formsluted · luting · lutes
