fluting
- n a groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column)
- v form flutes in
- Then he began in fluting tones to preach for the first time to a flock that is noted in all Christendom for its indifference to the church.
- A choir of tuneful penguins rippled off "fluting sounds" of welcome that reminded the explorer of the clarinet works of Johannes Brahms.
- Open it at any point and there the author is, fluting a different tune but charming the same old snake.