filleting

[ fil-i-ting ]

nounBuilding Trades.

Origin of filleting

First recorded in 1590–1600; fillet + -ing¹

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While I was filleting barramundi and julienning carrots, I saved like a man with a plan.
A Young Chef Travels to Calabria, Italy, and Learns the Old Ways of Cooking | Curtis Stone | November 28, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Prepare fillets of whitefish according to the directions for filleting fish in Art. 28.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 3 | Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
A cheap and excellent dish is made by filleting the tail of cod, egging and crumbing the pieces and frying them.
Nelson's Home Comforts | Mary Hooper
Where blind filleting is done it is usual to do die tooling at the same time.
Practical Bookbinding | Paul Adam
Upon each side of his breast was a rich filleting of gold lace, and on his head he wore a great white turban.
Travels in Arabia | Bayard Taylor

At the foot of the stalls, a narrow rectilinear filleting of the same material had bounded the whole.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) | John Roby

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