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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Flut"ed\, a.
1. Thin; fine; clear and mellow; flutelike; as, fluted notes.
   --Busby.
2. Decorated with flutes; channeled; grooved; as, a fluted
   column; a fluted ruffle; a fluted spectrum.
 
Glossary
 
 Definition: grooved or channeled. A fluted point is a projectile point which has had one or more long thinning flakes removed from the base along one or both faces (e.g. Clovis or Folsom points).
 
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