fillet vs jowl

fillet

noun
  • A strip or compact piece of meat or fish from which any bones and skin and feathers have been removed. 

  • Any scantling smaller than a batten. 

  • The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests. 

  • A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet. 

  • A premium cut of meat, especially beef, taken from below the lower back of the animal, considered to be lean and tender; also called tenderloin. 

  • A thin featureless moulding/molding used as separation between broader decorative mouldings. 

  • A colored or gilded border. 

  • The raised moulding around the muzzle of a gun. 

  • A thin strip of any material, in various technical uses. 

  • A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an inside edge, added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges. 

  • An ordinary equal in breadth to one quarter of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position. 

  • The space between two flutings in a shaft. 

  • The thread of a screw. 

  • A fascia; a band of fibres; applied especially to certain bands of white matter in the brain. 

verb
  • To apply, create, or specify a rounded or filled corner to. 

  • To slice, bone or make into fillets. 

jowl

noun
  • cut of fish including the head and adjacent parts 

  • the jaw, jawbone; especially one of the lateral parts of the mandible. 

  • the cheek; especially the cheek meat of a hog. 

  • a fold of fatty flesh under the chin, around the cheeks, or lower jaw (as a dewlap, wattle, crop, or double chin). 

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