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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 fluting
 吹笛子,笛聲,刻凹槽

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Flute, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fluted p. pr. & vb. n. Fluting ]
 1. To play, whistle, or sing with a clear, soft note, like that of a flute.
 Knaves are men,
 That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.   --Tennyson.
    The redwing flutes his o-ka-lee.   --Emerson.
 2. To form flutes or channels in, as in a column, a ruffle, etc.
 

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Flut·ing, n. Decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively; as, the fluting of a column or pilaster; the fluting of a lady's ruffle.
 Fluting iron, a laundry iron for fluting ruffles; -- called also Italian iron, or gaufering iron. --Knight.
 Fluting lathe, a machine for forming spiral flutes, as on balusters, table legs, etc.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 fluting
      n : a groove or furrow in cloth etc especially the shallow
          concave groove on the shaft of a column [syn: flute]