flitch
Americannoun
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the side of a hog (or, formerly, some other animal) salted and cured.
a flitch of bacon.
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a steak cut from a halibut.
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Carpentry.
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a piece, as a board, forming part of a flitch beam.
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a thin piece of wood, as a veneer.
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a bundle of veneers, arranged as cut from the log.
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a log about to be cut into veneers.
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cant.
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verb (used with object)
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to cut into flitches.
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Carpentry. to assemble (boards or the like) into a laminated construction.
noun
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a side of pork salted and cured
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a steak cut from the side of certain fishes, esp halibut
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a piece of timber cut lengthways from a tree trunk, esp one that is larger than 4 by 12 inches
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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flitchsimple
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flitchessimple
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have flitchedperfect
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has flitchedperfect
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am flitchingprogressive
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are flitchingprogressive
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is flitchingprogressive
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have been flitchingperfect progressive
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has been flitchingperfect progressive
Past
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flitchedsimple
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had flitchedperfect
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was flitchingprogressive
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were flitchingprogressive
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had been flitchingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of flitch
before 900; Middle English flicche, Old English flicca; cognate with Middle Low German vlicke, Old Norse flikki
Example Sentences
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Laura Cohen, acted as bearer of the flitch, a role that only men have done previously.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2024
Fitzwalter revealed his true identity and gave his land to the priory on the condition a flitch should be awarded to any couple who could claim they were similarly devoted.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2024
The prior, impressed by their devotion, gave them a flitch of bacon.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2024
The speaker is a remarkable man, a "rangy, gangling flitch" who broods away his days in the company of the "fops and fools of the coffeehouses" of 17th century London.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hence the phrase "He may fetch a flitch of bacon from Dunmow," i.e.,
From How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage by Hardy, Edward John
As to the time required for making the flitches sufficiently salt, it depends on circumstances; the thickness of the flitch, the state of the weather, the place wherein the salting is going on.
From Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend by Cobbett, William
"Easy! easy, Tom Miller!" the host interposed, affecting an air of assurance, even while he cast an eye of trouble at his flitches.
From The Story of Francis Cludde by Weyman, Stanley John
A brooding odour of disease filled the gaunt, wide-raftered room, infected the shadowy hanging flitches, and grew stronger and more sickly towards the staircase at the farther end.
From Sophia A Romance by Weyman, Stanley John
All the other parts taken away, the two sides that remain, and that are called flitches, are to be cured for bacon.
From Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend by Cobbett, William
At first she praised her native village: "it lies upon the hills, and the fields have a soil like flitches of bacon."
From Black Forest Village Stories by Auerbach, Berthold
Then it is hauled up with a steam winch and towed to a whaling station in some bay on the coast, where it is flitched.
From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Hedin, Sven Anders
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