Crossword-Solution: LUTE 4 letters, 312 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Lute	n.	A cement of clay or other tenacious infusible substance for sealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; -- called also luting.
Lute	n.	A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
Lute	n.	A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold.
Lute	v. t.	To close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint.
Lute	n.	A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or "sides," arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed.
Lute	v. i.	To sound, as a lute. Piers Plowman. Keats.
Lute	v. t.	To play on a lute, or as on a lute.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
LUTE	anagram	LEUT, TULE

We have 312 clues for the answer “LUTE”

Clue	Answers
"Greensleeves" accompaniment	1 answer
"Woman With a ___" (Vermeer painting)	1 answer
A wandering minstrel's instrument.	1 answer
ALUD	1 answer
Accompaniment for a madrigal	1 answer
Accompaniment for a pavane	1 answer
Ancestor of a banjo	1 answer
Ancestor of the mandolin.	1 answer
Ancient cousin of the guitar	1 answer
Ancient guitar cousin	1 answer
Ancient relative of the guitar	1 answer
Ancient stringed instrument sometimes made from a turtle shell	1 answer
Antecedent of the guitar.	1 answer
BANDORA	1 answer
BANDURA	1 answer
BANDURIA	1 answer
Bach wrote six works for it	1 answer
Balalaika or bouzouki	1 answer
Balalaika relative	1 answer
Balalaika's relative	1 answer
Balladeer's accessory	1 answer
Balladeer's aid	1 answer
Balladeer's instrument of yore	1 answer
Biblical instrument.	1 answer
Bouzouki or mandola	1 answer
Bouzouki, for example	1 answer
Boy's instrument in a Hals painting	1 answer
Broadcast spoils instrument	1 answer
Caravaggio's "The ___ Player"	1 answer
Chordophone popular in medieval times	1 answer
Citole	1 answer
Clay cement.	1 answer
Clay waterproof seal	1 answer
Cousin of a bandore	1 answer
Cousin of the banjo	1 answer
Early form of mandolin.	1 answer
Early guitar.	1 answer
Early instrument	1 answer
Early string instrument	1 answer
Elizabethan instrument	1 answer
Elizabethan stringed instrument	1 answer
Elizabethan strings	1 answer
Forerunner of the mandolin.	1 answer
Fruit-jar ring.	1 answer
Gentileschi's "Self-Portrait as a __ Player"	1 answer
Guitar forerunner	1 answer
Guitar granddaddy	1 answer
Guitar of old	1 answer
Guitar predecessor	1 answer
Guitar's cousin of yore	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ATERE

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greedy person

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Sentences with LUTE (5)

The different joints are rendered tight by lute, or in its absence, some stiff paste spread upon a piece of linen and wrapped around them will answer very well; an addition of sealing wax over all will make them doubly secure.

The History and Practice of the Art of Photography Henry H. Snelling 2008

Sunshine and silence, and each to each, The lute and his singing their only speech; He leans above her, her eyes unclose, The humming-bird enters another rose.

A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass Amy Lowell 2008

And another poem, -- not to make too long a story of my private enthusiasms -- "Ante Aram", -- wakes all my classical blood, -- "voice more sweet than the far plaint of viols is, Or the soft moan of any grey-eyed lute player." But these things are arcana.

The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke Rupert Brooke 1995

With him gret compaignie he ladde, Bot noght so manye as Youthe hadde: 2670 The moste part were of gret Age, And that was sene in the visage, And noght forthi, so as thei myhte, Thei made hem yongly to the sihte: Bot yit herde I no pipe there To make noise in mannes Ere, Bot the Musette I myhte knowe, For olde men which souneth lowe, With Harpe and Lute and with Citole.

Confessio Amantis John Gower 1995

Then there were Kauffmann nymphs garlanding the altar of Love; a Veronese supper, all sheeny textures, pearl-woven heads and marble architecture; and a Watteau group of lute-playing comedians, lounging by a fountain in a sunlit glade.

The house of Mirth Edith Wharton 1995

Quotes with LUTE (3)

Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your …

Kahlil Gibran The Prophet

You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God. But let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your br…

Kahlil Gibran

love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

Kahlil Gibran Prophet Hb

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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 541 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).