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Ruff :: Ruff (n.) Something formed with plaits or flutings, like the collar of this name..

Fluting :: Fluting (n.) Decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively; as, the fluting of a column or pilaster; the fluting of a lady's ruffle..

Stroam :: Strix (n.) One of the flutings of a column.

Arris :: Arris (n.) The sharp edge or salient angle formed by two surfaces meeting each other, whether plane or curved; -- applied particularly to the edges in moldings, and to the raised edges which separate the flutings in a Doric column..

Fillet :: Fillet (n.) A narrow flat member; especially, a flat molding separating other moldings; a reglet; also, the space between two flutings in a shaft. See Illust. of Base, and Column..

Fluting :: Fluting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flut.

Facet :: Facet (n.) The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column.

Nurl :: Nurl (v. t.) To cut with reeding or fluting on the edge of, as coins, the heads of screws, etc.; to knurl..

Quilling :: Quilling (n.) One of the rounded plaits or flutings of such a band.

Fluter :: Fluter (n.) One who makes grooves or flutings.

Platband :: Platband (n.) A list or fillet between the flutings of a column.

Cabling :: Cabling (n.) The decoration of a fluted shaft of a column or of a pilaster with reeds, or rounded moldings, which seem to be laid in the hollows of the fluting. These are limited in length to about one third of the height of the shaft..

Reeding :: Reeding (n.) A small convex molding; a reed (see Illust. (i) of Molding); one of several set close together to decorate a surface; also, decoration by means of reedings; -- the reverse of fluting..

Gauffering :: Gauffering (n.) A mode of plaiting or fluting.

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