straight flute

1. 1.

   a rock drill with flutes that are straight

   Synonymsstraight-fluted drill

   Broaderbore bit

Questions about straight flute

What does straight flute mean?

straight flute means "a rock drill with flutes that are straight".

What is another word for straight flute?

Close synonyms include straight-fluted drill. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is straight flute a common word?

straight flute is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.