[f. LUTE v.2 + -ING1.] The action of stopping joints or cracks with lute.
1608. Bp. Hall, Char. Virtues & Vices, Presumptuous, Wks. (1627), 195. He is a confident alchymist…. His glasse breakes; yet hee, vpon better luting, laies wagers of the successe.
1676. Worlidge, Cyder (1691), 52. The head of the stock … covered to defend it from wet by good luteing of it.
1816. Kirby & Sp., Entomol. (1828), II. 500. Transfer the bees to a new hive which shall require a new luting.
attrib. 1789. J. Keir, Dict. Chem., 97/1. The whole luting apparatus is to be bound with a string.
b. concr. The material used for this purpose.
1527. Andrew, Brunswyke’s Distyll. Waters, A iij. A lutynge for a glasse that ryveth upon the fyre.
1662. Merrett, trans. Neri’s Art of Glass, xxxviii. Bath the joynts and lutings with warm water.
1777. Priestley, On Air, III. Introd. 4. As a luting I have found it most convenient.
1800. trans. Lagrange’s Chem., I. 30. A luting is employed, called Fat Luting.
1861. Gesner, Coal, Petrol., etc. (1865), 173. A good fine clay,… is the cheapest luting for retort lids.
1893. Lloyd & Hadcock, Artillery, 219. The door or cover is made watertight with a mixture of beeswax and tallow, termed ‘luting.’
