Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A machine for crimping or corrugating sheet-metal by bending it between corrugated cylinders called
fluting-cylinders . - noun A wood-turning machine for forming twisted, spiral, and fluted balusters, etc.
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Examples
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The very audacity of the effort seemed inspiration to more ambitious work; and during the long summer, while in her busy hands the fluting-machine went round and round, Evelyn's mind was full of plans for the future.
Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886
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