U.S. Brickmaking. [a. Du. loet (whence also LOOT sb.1).] (See quot. 1889.)
1875. in Knight, Dict. Mech.
1889. C. T. Davis, Manuf. Bricks, etc. (ed. 2), 142. There is a tool used for scraping off and levelling the moulding floor…. It consists of a piece of light pine board,… set upright, with a long light handle in the centre. At the bottom is tacked a thin piece of steel, generally an old wood-saw blade, with the teeth turned upward…. The tool is called a ‘lute.’
