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Webster 1913 Edition

Fillet

Fil′let

,
Noun.
[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)
A piece of lean meat without bone; sometimes, a long strip rolled together and tied.
☞ 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.)
A concave filling in of a reëntrant angle where two surfaces meet, forming a rounded corner.
5.
(Arch.)
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.)
An ordinary equaling in breadth one fourth of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.
7.
(Mech.)
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.)
A fascia; a band of fibers; applied esp. to certain bands of white matter in the brain.
12.
(Man.)
The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.
Arris fillet
.
See under
Arris
.

Fil′let

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Filleted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Filleting
.]
To bind, furnish, or adorn with a fillet.

Webster 1828 Edition

Fillet

FIL'LET

,
Noun.
[L. filum.]
1.
A little band to tie about the hair of the head.
A belt her waist, a fillet binds her hair.
2.
The fleshy part of the thigh; applied to veal; as a fillet of veal.
3.
Meat rolled together and tied round.
4.
In architecture, a little square member or ornament used in divers places, but generally as a corona over a greater molding; called also listel.
5.
In heraldry, a kind of orle or bordure, containing only the third or fourth part of the breadth of the common bordure. it runs quite round near the edge, as a lace over a cloke.
6.
Among painters and gilders, a little rule or reglet of leaf-gold, drawn over certain moldings, or on the edges of frames, pannels, &c., especially when painted white, by way of enrichment.
7.
In the manege, the loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.

FIL'LET

,
Verb.
T.
1.
to bind with a fillet or little band.
2.
To adorn with an astragal. Ex. 38.

Definition 2024

fillet

fillet

English

Noun

fillet ‎(plural fillets)

  1. (now rare) A headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.iii:
      In secret shadow, farre from all mens sight: / From her faire head her fillet she vndight, / And laid her stole aside.
    • Alexander Pope
      A fillet binds her hair.
    • 1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, Mew York 2007, p. 42:
      She was talking of Raymond Duncan, a walking absurdity who dressed in an ancient handwoven Greek costume and wore his hair in long braids reaching to his waist, adding, on ceremonial occasions, a fillet of bay-leaves.
  2. A thin strip of any material, in various technical uses.
  3. (construction) A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet.
  4. (engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an inside edge, added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges.
  5. A strip or compact piece of meat or fish from which any bones and skin and feathers have been removed.
  6. (architecture) A thin flat moulding/molding used as separation between larger mouldings.
  7. (architecture) The space between two flutings in a shaft.
  8. (heraldry) An ordinary equal in breadth to one quarter of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.
  9. The thread of a ****.
  10. A border of broad or narrow lines of colour or gilt.
    • 1911, George Sterling, The Swimmers:
      Fairer than gods and naked as the moon, The foamy fillets at their ankles strewn Less marble-white than they
  11. The raised moulding around the muzzle of a gun.
  12. (woodworking) Any scantling smaller than a batten.
  13. (anatomy) A fascia; a band of fibres; applied especially to certain bands of white matter in the brain.
  14. The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.

Antonyms

  • (rounded outside edge): round

Synonyms

  • (a boneless cut of meat): filet

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Verb

fillet ‎(third-person singular simple present fillets, present participle filleting, simple past and past participle filleted)

  1. (transitive) To slice, bone or make into fillets.
  2. (transitive) To apply, create, or specify a rounded or filled corner to.

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Etymology

From Middle French filet, ultimately from Latin fīlum ‎(“thread”).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: fĭ'lĭt, IPA(key): /ˈfɪlɪt/
  • Rhymes: -ɪlɪt
  • (General American) (meat senses) IPA(key): /fɪˈleɪ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪ

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