FILLETING

Verb

filleting

present participle of fillet

Noun

filleting (plural filletings)

(architecture) The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar or cement, where flashing is employed in better work.

The material of which fillets are made.

Fillets collectively.

Source: Wiktionary

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Fil"let*ing, n.

1. (Arch.)

Definition: The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work.

2. The material of which fillets are made; also, fillets, collectively.

FILLET

Fil"let, n. Etym: [OE. filet, felet, fr. OF. filet thread, fillet of meat, dim. of fil a thread, fr. L. filum. See Fille a row.]

1. A little band, especially one intended to encircle the hair of the head. A belt her waist, a fillet binds her hair. Pope.

2. (Cooking)

Definition: A piece of lean meat without bone; sometimes, a long strip rolled together and tied.

Note: A fillet of beef is the under side of the sirlom; also called tenderloin. A fillet of veal or mutton is the fleshy part of the thigh. A fillet of fish is a slice of flat fish without bone. "Fillet of a fenny snake." Shak.

3. A thin strip or ribbon; esp.: (a) A strip of metal from which coins are punched. (b) A strip of card clothing. (c) A thin projecting band or strip.

4. (Mach.)

Definition: A concave filling in of a reëntrant angle where two surfaces meet, forming a rounded corner.

5. (Arch.)

Definition: A narrow flat member; especially, a flat molding separating other moldings; a reglet; also, the space between two flutings in a shaft. See Illust. of Base, and Column.

6. (Her.)

Definition: An ordinary equaling in breadth one fourth of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.

7. (Mech.)

Definition: The thread of a screw.

8. A border of broad or narrow lines of color or gilt.

9. The raised molding about the muzzle of a gun.

10. Any scantling smaller than a batten.

11. (Anat.)

Definition: A fascia; a band of fibers; applied esp. to certain bands of white matter in the brain.

12. (Man.)

Definition: The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests. Arris fillet. See under Arris.

Fil"let, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Filleted; p. pr. & vb. n. Filleting.]

Definition: To bind, furnish, or adorn with a fillet.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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