fillet

fillet is a Noun

Definition:

[1] A little band, especially one intended to encircle the hair of the head. A belt her waist, a fillet binds her hair. Pope.

[2] A piece of lean meat without bone; sometimes, a long strip rolled together and tied.

[3] 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.

[4] A concave filling in of a reëntrant angle where two surfaces meet, forming a rounded corner.

[5] 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.

[6] An ordinary equaling in breadth one fourth of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.

[7] The thread of a screw.

[8] A border of broad or narrow lines of color or gilt.

[9] The raised molding about the muzzle of a gun.

[10] Any scantling smaller than a batten.

[11] A fascia; a band of fibers; applied esp. to certain bands of white matter in the brain.

[12] The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests. Arris fillet. See under Arris.