vbl. sb. [f. as prec. + -ING1.]
1. The action of the vb. FILLET in various senses.
1598. Vestry Bks. (Surtees), 274. To the mason for the filleting of the church, ijs. iiijd.
1823. P. Nicholson, Pract. Build., 400. Filleting … consists in covering the meeting-joints with fillets of slates, bedded in putty, and screwing them down through the whole into the rafters.
attrib. 1643. Vestry Bks. (Surtees), 192. Six dayes and a halfe worke in filiating and playstering worke.
2. concr. a. A woven material for binding; tape; a piece of the same; a band or bandage.
1639. T. de Gray, Compl. Horseman, 79. Take a peece of Filliting and bind it above the Pastern-joynt.
1658. A. Fox, trans. Wurtz’ Surg., II. xxviii. 197. I tied many times on the roulers two fillettins, one above, the other below, fearing the marrow would slip away.
1764. Hadley, in Phil. Trans., LIV. 6. The filleting … went round the upper part of the body.
1778. Eng. Gazetteer (ed. 2) s.v. Manchester, Tapes, filleting, and linen cloth.
1882. Caulfeild & Saward, Dict. Needlework, Filletings.—An unbleached and very heavy description of Holland Tape, cut into various lengths, and numbered 31/4 to 10.
b. A head-band; = FILLET 1.
1648. Herrick, Hesper. (1844), II. 218.
| Put on thy Holy Fillitings, and so | |
| To th’ Temple with the sober Midwife go. |
c. Fillets or ornamental lines, e.g., of gilding on the covers of a book.
1747. Franklin, Letter to Peter Collinson, 1 Sept. Wks. 1887, II. 91. If you would have the whole filleting round the cover [of the book] appear in fire at once, let the bottle and wire touch the gold in the diagonally opposite corners.
