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filleting

[ fil-i-ting ]

noun

, Building Trades.
  1. material, as mortar, used as a substitute for flashing.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of filleting1

First recorded in 1590–1600; fillet + -ing 1

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Example Sentences

While I was filleting barramundi and julienning carrots, I saved like a man with a plan.

Prepare fillets of whitefish according to the directions for filleting fish in Art. 28.

A cheap and excellent dish is made by filleting the tail of cod, egging and crumbing the pieces and frying them.

Where blind filleting is done it is usual to do die tooling at the same time.

Upon each side of his breast was a rich filleting of gold lace, and on his head he wore a great white turban.

At the foot of the stalls, a narrow rectilinear filleting of the same material had bounded the whole.

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