[loot] 
noun, verb, lut⋅ed, lut⋅ing.| 1. | a stringed musical instrument having a long, fretted neck and a hollow, typically pear-shaped body with a vaulted back. |
| 2. | to play a lute. |
| 3. | to perform (music) on a lute: a musician skilled at luting Elizabethan ballads. |
| 4. | to express (a feeling, mood, etc.) by means of a lute: The minstrel eloquently luted his melancholy. |
[loot] noun, verb, lut⋅ed, lut⋅ing.| 1. | luting. |
| 2. | to seal or cement with luting. |
[loot] noun, verb, lut⋅ed, lut⋅ing.| 1. | a paving tool for spreading and smoothing concrete, consisting of a straightedge mounted transversely on a long handle. |
| 2. | to spread and smooth (concrete in a pavement) with a lute. |
| lute 1 (lōōt) n. A stringed instrument having a body shaped like a pear sliced lengthwise and a neck with a fretted fingerboard that is usually bent just below the tuning pegs. [Middle English, from Old French lut, from Old Provençal laut, from Arabic al-'ūd : al-, the + 'ūd, wood, branch, stem, lute.] |
| lute 2 (lōōt) n. A substance, such as dried clay or cement, used to pack and seal pipe joints and other connections or coat a porous surface in order to make it tight. Also called luting. tr.v. lut·ed, lut·ing, lutes To coat, pack, or seal with lute. [Middle English, from Old French lut, from Latin lutum, potter's clay.] |
