fluting

plural flutings

1. sculpturearchitectureA decoration consisting of parallel, normally vertical, flutes (grooves) incised into the surface.

   Flutings also adorn the short architraves each side of the fanlight, and the abacus of the pilaster columns which is carried across a supplementary lintel in front of the lintel proper, the latter being several inches to the rear because of the deeply recessed arrangement of the door.

   1920, Frank Cousins, Phil M. Riley, The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company

2. The act of making such grooves.
3. A flute-like sound.
4. fashionA fluted pleat; a small, rounded or pressed pleat used as trimming on a garment.
5. The erosional process by which a well-jointed coarse-grained rock, such as granite or gneiss, surface develops a set of flutes.

1. not comparableMaking a sound like a flute.

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of flute