Fillet /(?)/
Fil·let
Fillet
n.
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A little band, especially one intended to encircle the hair of the head.
A belt her waist, a fillet binds her hair.
- A piece of lean meat without bone; sometimes, a long strip rolled together and tied. (Cooking)
- 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.
- A concave filling in of a reëntrant angle where two surfaces meet, forming a rounded corner. (Mach.)
- 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. (Arch.)
- An ordinary equaling in breadth one fourth of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position. (Her.)
- The thread of a screw. (Mech.)
- A border of broad or narrow lines of color or gilt.
- The raised molding about the muzzle of a gun.
- Any scantling smaller than a batten.
- A fascia; a band of fibers; applied esp. to certain bands of white matter in the brain. (Anat.)
- The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests. (Man.)
Phrases & Compounds
- Arris fillet
- See under Arris.
Fillet
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Filleted; p. pr. & vb. n. Filleting
- To bind, furnish, or adorn with a fillet.