verb
- present participle of filet; to remove the bones from fish or meat
- present participle of filet; to decorate or trim with a filet or narrow band
Usage: less common
noun
- the act or process of removing bones from fish or meat
Examples
- The chef is fileting the salmon for tonight's dinner.
- Fileting a whole fish requires a sharp knife and steady hands.
- She learned fileting techniques in her culinary school course.
- The butcher was fileting the chicken breasts when I arrived.
- Fileting removes the small bones that would otherwise be unpleasant to eat.
- He practiced fileting fish until he could do it quickly and cleanly.