fluting

English Thesaurus

1. a groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column) (noun.artifact)

hypernym	:	channel, groove,
definition	:	a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record) (noun.shape)

derivation	:	flute,
definition	:	form flutes in (verb.contact)

derivation	:	flute,
definition	:	form flutes in (verb.contact)