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Definition of Fluters
1. fluter [n] - See also: fluter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fluters
Literary usage of Fluters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs by Thomas Percy, J. V. Prichard (1876)
"... heroic tales to the harp would necessarily be a solitary performer, we must
not expect to find him in the band along with the trumpeters, fluters, &c. ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"... And to wild cackle as of goose-flights stir* 1 Pale Peace's pretty fluters of
small joys And flue ..."
3. ... The Native Races: Of the Pacific States by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1886)
"A large house or workshop was erected; and when the sun and moon were ready they
were intrusted to the direction and guidance of the two dumb fluters ..."
4. The Dictionary of Statistics by Michael George Mulhall (1892)
"... silk-factory were as follows :— Weavers Warpers fluters Winders Folders Pence
Daily 1848 36 19 ii ii so »3 18 18 33 BELGIUM Agricultural wages in ..."
5. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1892)
"... you will now see day after day, as you pass, in city and country, a pair of
little wooden fluters propping up a door shelter ! You will often see, too, ..."
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