filleting

[ fil-i-ting ]

noun

, Building Trades.

1. material, as mortar, used as a substitute for flashing.

Word History and Origins

Origin of filleting¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; fillet + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

Over her last 10 records, the star has taken a scalpel to her personal life, filleting the details of flings and trysts and heartbreaks to create some of pop's most memorable lyrics.

From BBC

Panelo worked at Mutual Fish in the 1980s, one of many cutters filleting and deboning “smelt by the hundreds of pounds,” a fish not many other markets sold at that time.

From Seattle Times

Filleting the text by nearly an hour so that it actually does equate to the Chorus’s promised “two hours’ traffic of our stage,” Frecknall brings to her first professional foray into Shakespeare the same pared-back, scalpel-sharp precision she has previously applied to Tennessee Williams and her still-running West End revival of “Cabaret,” which is rumored to be heading to New York next spring.

From New York Times

He wasn’t there long, however, Conklin told the Statesman, because Kohberger didn’t show himself to be very personable with customers and also wasn’t improving at filleting the fish.

From Seattle Times

But the prime example is in Nashville, where the Republican-led General Assembly kicked off a partisan fury a year ago by filleting the city’s Democratic congressional district into three new districts, all safely Republican.

From New York Times