lute
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A thick material used to cover joints and stop leaks
- noun
- /luːt/
- Specialized
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sellante
- In one portrait, a seventeenth-century version of our padrona holds a lute dripping with flower garlands.
Examples
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To ensure the container was watertight, they used a thick lute around the edges.
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The engineers applied a special lute to seal the connections and prevent any gas leaks during the experiment.
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And my lute, too, poor thing.
Fiction book (1998) -
- What happens when the pirates figure out that the loot is your lute?
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Oh, these earthen walls are ideal for baffling the higher registers of the, uh... lute or sackbut.
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It'll be mighty strange if the next wave of heroes are lute-bearing namers.
Blog text (27) -
In the laboratory, the technician selected a durable lute for coating the porous material.
Synonyms
Surface Forms
Etymology
Lute comes from Latin lutum, which means 'mud' or 'clay'. A lute was originally a clay-like paste used to seal joints and stop leaks, so the word now means a material for making something airtight.