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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flitches,
present (3rd person singular)
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flitched,
past participle, past
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flitching
present participle
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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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Desmond and Minette Carter are among the far-flung flitch winners, having travelled to Essex from Detroit in 2022.
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
Laura Cohen, acted as bearer of the flitch, a role that only men have done previously.
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
But, alas, the cottage door was barred, and there was no trace of the black-bearded sinner, save a flitch of bacon and the beer barrel which stood in the most inaccessible of pantries.
From Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse by Various
Besides what the chest contained there had been some loose flitches of the dried fish lying about upon the raft.
From The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Mayne Reid
We next went to several unfurnished rooms, fronting the yard, in one of which were hanging several flitches of bacon, beneath which he stopped, and, looking up, gazed intently upon them.
From The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] by George Henry Borrow
They went; and Mamsell Westphalen sat alone in her sadness under her flitches of bacon and hams and sausages.
From In the Year '13 A Tale of Mecklenburg Life by Fritz Reuter
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 William Cobbett
This keeledar was a most unseemly-looking man; a great fat buffalo of a fellow, with enormous flitches of fat hanging over his hips.
From Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment by John Shipp
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 Sven Anders Hedin
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