subs. (old).—1.  The recorder of a corporation.

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  1598.  FLORIO, A Worlde of Wordes, s.v. Tibia, a FLUTE, a recorder, a pipe.

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  c. 1696.  B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew. FLUTE, c. The recorder of London or of any other town.

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  1785.  GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.

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  1825.  G. KENT, Modern Flash Dictionary. FLUTE—the recorder of any town.

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  2.  (venery).—The penis. Also the ONE-HOLED, THE LIVING, or THE SILENT FLUTE. TO PLAY A TUNE ON THE ONE-HOLED FLUTE = to have connection. Cf., Dryden (Sixth Juvenal, line 107). ‘And stretch his QUAIL-PIPE till they crack his voice.’ For synonyms, see CREAMSTICK and PRICK.

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  1720.  D’URFEY, Wit and Mirth; or Pills to Purge Melancholy, vi., 31.

        He took her by the middle,
  And taught her by the FLUTE.

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  1736.  The Cupid, p. 163.

        The Flute is good that’s made of Wood,
And is, I own, the neatest;
Yet ne’ertheless, I must confess,
The SILENT FLUTE’S the sweetest.

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