lute

noun

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.

transitive verb

To coat, pack, or seal with lute.

noun

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.

To play on or as on a lute.

To play the lute.

To sound sweetly, like a lute.

noun

A medieval musical instrument, the type of the class which has strings stretched over a resonant body and a long fretted neck, and which is played by twanging or snapping the strings with the fingers.

To close or coat with lute; smear with any adhesive substance for the purpose of closing cracks or joints.

A Middle English form of lite .

A Middle English form of lout .