c. 1600, "to bind with a narrow band," from fillet (n.). Meaning "to cut in fillets" is from 1846. Related: Filleted; filleting.

early 14c., "little headband," from Old French filet "thread, filament; strip, ligament" (12c.), diminutive of fil "thread" (see file (v.1)). Sense of "cut of meat o [..]

As a verb, to remove the bones from meat or fish. A fillet (or filet) is the piece of flesh after it has been boned.

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a boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef decorate with a lace of geometric designs a longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish cut into filets; "filet the fish" lemn [..]

"The fillet is a binder’s tool: a revolving wheel with one or more raised strips on its circumference for impressing a line or parallel lines on the leather or other binding material. In the...

A piece of boneless fish or meat.

To take the flesh off the bones of a fish, poultry or meat.

In bookbinding, one or more thin decorative bands or lines impressed in gilt or blind on the boards and/or spine of a book, usually around the circumference of the cover. Also refers to the rolling to [..]

A boned, trimmed, lean piece of fish.

a ribbon or narrow strip of material used especially as a headband

A concave corner piece used on foundry patterns, a radius joint replacing sharp inside corners.

Rebate, often used as a decorative feature with moldings.

A method of using a sharp knife to separate the meaty portion of the fish from the bones and skeleton and/or skin for human consumption.   finesse fishing

A curved surface connecting two surfaces that form an angle.

In mechanical engineering, a fillet is a rounding of an interior or exterior corner of a part design. Friction

A curved face where a rib meets a wall, intended to improve the flow of material and eliminate mechanical stress concentrations on the finished part.

A flat thin band used to separate mouldings.    (Wood, Margaret. The English Medieval House, 412)

Pronounce it: fill-ettBoneless or nearly boneless piece of fish cut lengthways from the sides of the fish - and also a verb 'to fillet'. May or may not be skinned.To fillet a fish remo [..]

A boneless piece of Jamaican meat or Jamaican fish. This also means to cut the bones from a piece of Jamaican meat or Jamaican fish, thereby creating a meat or fish fillet. T

A flat piece of boneless meat, poultry, or fish. Also, to cut the bones from a piece of meat, poultry, or fish.

A piece of meat or fish that has no bones. As a verb, fillet refers to the process of cutting meat or fish into fillets.

To create a fillet of fish or meat by cutting away the bones. Fish and boning knives help produce clean fillets.

Remove bones from fish or meat.

To cut meat, chicken, or fish from the bones.

A boneless cut of meat or fish, also, the action of removing flesh from the bone to obtain the fillet.

(n) a boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef(n) a longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish(n) a bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus(n) a narrow headband or strip of ribbon w [..]

A strip of flesh from the side of a fish, cut away from the backbone. Fillets can be skin-on or skinless, bone-in or boneless. If the bones are removed by cutting out a strip of flesh, the fillet is “ [..]

A cut of fish flesh, irregularly sized and shaped, which is removed from the carcass by a cut made parallel to the backbone.

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A narrow band round the head for binding the hair, or simply for ornament. Aure’lian was the first Roman emperor that wore a royal fillet or diadem in public. In the time of Constantine the f [..]

A fillet simply refers to a radius added between two intersecting surface. They might be added for aesthetics, strength, or to make a part simpler to produce.

The edible portion of a fish that is cut away from the backbone on each side of the body.

Curved surface used to blend two intersecting planes.

that portion of an adhesive which fills the corner or angle formed where two adherends are joined.

Rounded corner at the intersection of two lines or edges; concave intersection between two surfaces. Fillet refers to an interior corner; exterior corner is known as a round.  You can draw a fillet us [..]

In fish, a slice of meat without bones, cut out for human consumption

The rounded edge of a rolled steel angle or bar.

To remove the bones from meat or fish for cooking.

If you're a novice cook you probably won't be tackling too many recipes that call for filleting. It's a bit of a skill but once mastered is very impressive! You fillet fish and meat in [..]

boneless piece of meat or fish (see also cutlet

(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 s [..]