Usually means: Woodwind instruments with pitched holes.
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  1. flutes: Merriam-Webster
  2. flutes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. flutes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Flutes, flute's, flutes: Wordnik
  5. flutes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. flutes: Wiktionary
  7. flutes: Dictionary.com
  8. Flutes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. flutes: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. flutes: Encyclopedia

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  1. flutes: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (flute)

noun:  (music) A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge of the holes, often tuned by plugging one or more holes with a finger; the Western concert flute, a transverse side-blown flute of European origin.
noun:  (colloquial) A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.
noun:  A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.
noun:  A lengthwise groove, such as one of the lengthwise grooves on a classical column, or a groove on a cutting tool (such as a drill bit, endmill, or reamer), which helps to form both a cutting edge and a channel through which chips can escape.
noun:  (architecture, firearms) A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.
noun:  A long French bread roll, baguette.
noun:  An organ stop with a flute-like sound.
noun:  A shuttle in weaving tapestry etc.
verb:  (intransitive) To play on a flute.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a flutelike sound.
verb:  (transitive) To utter with a flutelike sound.
verb:  (transitive) To form flutes or channels in (as in a column, a ruffle, etc.); to cut a semicylindrical vertical groove in (as in a pillar, etc.).
noun:  A kind of flyboat; a storeship.
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