Clues for the word "LUTE"
We've had 162 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 423 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily American crossword on December 16, 2024.
Definition of 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.
- n. - A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
- n. - A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold.
- v. t. - To close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint.
- 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.
- v. i. - To sound, as a lute. Piers Plowman. Keats.
- v. t. - To play on a lute, or as on a lute.
Referring Clues
- Guitar relative
- Fretted instrument
- Pear-shaped instrument
- Cousin of a bandore
- Mandolin's ancestor
- Instrument shaped like a 69-Across
- Long-necked instrument
- Cousin of the banjo
- Relative of a mandolin
- Madrigal accompaniment
- Vermeer's "Woman With a ___"
- String instrument
- Guitar forerunner
- Renaissance instrument
- Mandolin kin
- Minstrel's instrument
- Renaissance musicmaker
- Cousin of a mandolin
- Balladeer's aid
- Old instrument that's strummed
- It has strings attached
- Accompaniment for a madrigal
- Old balladeer's instrument
- It has a low bridge
- Instrument that's plucked
- Ancestor of a banjo
- It's featured in two Vivaldi concertos
- Troubadour's instrument
- Instrument of Elizabethan ballads
- Instrument featured in some Shakespeare plays
- Mandolin relative
- Minstrel's accompaniment
- Instrument with a long neck
- Balladeer's instrument of yore
- Mandolin's cousin
- Madrigalist's accompaniment
- Theorbo's cousin
- Sitar, e.g.
- Tamboura's cousin
- Bard's instrument
- Guitar granddaddy
- Strings for a minstrel
- Guitar ancestor
- Instrument with a pear-shaped body
- Bouzouki or mandola
- Instrument for Julian Bream
- Stringed instrument
- Troubadour accompanier
- Ancient stringed instrument
- Minstrel's strings
- Mandolin cousin
- Baroque instrument
- Instrument for 19-Across
- Elizabethan instrument
- Boy's instrument in a Hals painting
- Guitar's kin
- Madrigal accompaniment, perhaps
- One with a long neck and a rounded body
- Mandolin's forerunner
- Balalaika or bouzouki
- Instrument for a minstrel
- Old strings
- Subject of a lesson for Katharina in "The Taming of the Shrew"
- Pear-shaped stringed instrument
- Sitar kin
- Ancient guitar cousin
- Troubador prop
- Mandolin cousin of old
- Two Vivaldi concertos feature it
- Guitar of old
- Medieval instrument
- Sitar's cousin
- Mandolin's kin
- Guitar's ancestor
- Troubadour's accompaniment
- Troubadour's prop
- Guitar kin
- Serenade accompaniment
- Pear-shaped instrument of old
- Minstrel's instrument, perhaps
- Zither's kin
- Stringed instrument for a madrigal
- Renaissance music staple
- Plucked Renaissance instrument
- Balladeer's accessory
- Pipe sealant
- Relative of a zither
- Stradivari specialty
- Troubador's instrument
- Guitar's older relative
- Elizabethan strings
- Musical instrument
- Madrigal's instrument
- Shakespearean instrument
- Medieval guitar
- Troubadour's stringed instrument
- Elizabethan stringed instrument
- Instrument with a bent neck
- Renaissance Faire instrument
- Ancient cousin of the guitar
- Henry VIII played it
- Banjo ancestor
- Accompaniment for a pavane
- Mandolin ancestor
- Old instrument
- Pear-shaped, fretted instrument
- It covers Miami, Montpelier and Montreal
- Guitar relative of old
- Pear-shaped classical guitar
- Old plucked instrument
- Old stringed instrument with a pear-shaped body
- Instrument
- Old stringed instrument
- Not loud, or it would have been in the wind section
- Fellow leaves one instrument for another
- Old musical instrument
- One instrument or another needing no introduction
- Instrument left with Victorian pick-up
- Early guitar
- Old guitar-like instrument
- Type of stringed instrument
- Plucked, pear-shaped instrument
- Subject to drugs
- It can be riven
- Ancient guitar
- Old pear-shaped instrument
- Troubadour's strings
- Balladeer's instrument
- Guitar predecessor
- Instrument for Alan-a-Dale in "Robin Hood"
- Minstrel's item
- Instrument broken over Hortensio's head in "The Taming of the Shrew"
- Old 'guitar'
- Caravaggio's "The ___ Player"
- Minstrel's stringed instrument
- Stringed instrument with a deep rounded sounding cavity
- Pear-shaped instrument of yore
- It becomes another instrument when "F" is added
- One with a neck and a round body
- Mandolin’s relative
- Early string instrument
- Instrument similar to the oud
- Serenade need, perhaps
- Instrument that becomes another instrument if you add an F at the beginning
- Instrument akin to an oud
- String instrument spelled by removing the first letter from a woodwind instrument
- Ukulele forebear
- Gentileschi's "Self-Portrait as a ___ Player"
- Has it a plucky player?
- Instrument originally played with a quill
- Ren faire instrument
- Renaissance fair instrument
- Stringed instrument with a pear-shaped body
- Medieval instrument with a pear-shaped body
- Ancient stringed instrument sometimes made from a turtle shell
- Ye olde string instrument
- Instrument once plucked with a quill
- Instrument for a troubadour
- Ancient instrument
- It becomes a different instrument by adding "f" to the front
- Chordophone popular in medieval times
- Sitar, technically
Last Seen In
- Daily American - December 16, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 11, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 04, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 04, 2024
- New York Times - November 15, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - October 16, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - October 02, 2024
- Your Life Choices - September 22, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 18, 2024
- Your Life Choices - September 10, 2024
- Daily American - September 08, 2024
- Your Life Choices - August 12, 2024
- New York Times - August 10, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - August 08, 2024
- USA Today - July 08, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - June 03, 2024
- Daily American - May 06, 2024
- Your Life Choices - May 05, 2024
- Family Time - May 05, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 29, 2024
- Daily American - April 29, 2024
- New York Times - April 21, 2024
- LA Times - April 14, 2024
- LA Times - April 13, 2024
- New York Times - February 11, 2024
- Family Time - January 07, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - January 01, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 24, 2023
- USA Today - November 14, 2023
- USA Today - November 12, 2023
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