v. Obs.1 [? echoic.] intr. To whistle.

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c. 1650.  Robin Hood, 52, in Furniv., Percy Folio, I. 30.

        Now fute on, fute on thou cutted fryar,
  I pray god thou neere be still;
it is not the futing in a fryers fist
  that can doe me any ill.

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