Fluting meaning : To play on a flute. To make a flutelike sound. To utter with a flutelike sound. To form flutes or channels in (as in a column, a ruffle, etc.); to cut a semicylindrical vertical groove in (as in a pillar, etc.). A decoration consisting of parallel, normally vertical, flutes (grooves) incised into the surface. The act of making such grooves. A flute-like sound. A fluted pleat; a small, rounded or pressed pleat used as trimming on a garment. Making a sound like a flute.