The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fillet \Fil"let\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Filleted; p. pr. & vb. n. Filleting.] To bind, furnish, or adorn with a fillet.
Filleting \Fil"let*ing\, n.
(Arch.) 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; also, fillets, collectively.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context architecture English) 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. 3 fillet collectively. vb. (present participle of fillet English)
Usage examples of "filleting".
The beam would slice along the side of the tower, filleting the structural girders so the entire bottom floor would tumble away into interplanetary space.
Byers: “Uh, I got a deer this year, and I was cutting it up to make some beef jerky and I had a filleting knife, a Ginsu filleting knife, and I thought of that knife, and I tried to cut some of the deer as thin as possible, and when I found out that it wouldn’t cut as thin as the skinning knife was, I put it up.
He chose only the types to be gutted, recognizing that his filleting technique was not up to par.
The old man had grabbed a long filleting knife and had taken a step forward.
The Ghost was in the kitchen, taking a long filleting knife from a drawer.
How he finds the time and the strength to keep up with deliveries, the nuts and bolts of deep prep, like cleaning squid, washing mussels and spinach, dicing tomato, julienning leek, filleting fish, wrapping and deboning pigs' feet, crushing peppercorns and so on, and yet still finds time to make me beautiful, filament-thin chiffonaded parsley (which he cuts with a full-sized butcher's scimitar) is beyond me.
I didn't actually hesitate before entering, but I did do a quick visual scan to assure myself that we weren't interrupting some guy with a boning knife filleting a corpse.
Then she went back to chopping fish heads, scaling and filleting them.
There were the white cowls of the Priests, the heavy grey hoods of Magicians, the banded filletings of Priestesses, bare heads of student-priests and scribes.