flitch

[ flich ]

/ flɪtʃ /

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noun

the side of a hog (or, formerly, some other animal) salted and cured: a flitch of bacon.

a steak cut from a halibut.

Carpentry.

a piece, as a board, forming part of a flitch beam.
a thin piece of wood, as a veneer.
a bundle of veneers, arranged as cut from the log.
a log about to be cut into veneers.
cant²(def 8).

verb (used with object)

to cut into flitches.

Carpentry. to assemble (boards or the like) into a laminated construction.

Nearby words

flirtable, flirtation, flirtatious, flit, flit gun, flitch, flitch beam, flitchplate, flite, fliting, flitter

Origin of flitch

before 900; Middle English flicche, Old English flicca; cognate with Middle Low German vlicke, Old Norse flikki

Related forms

un·flitched, adjective

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Examples from the Web for flitch

Here are butter and eggs, here is tea, here is sugar, and there is a flitch.
Lavengro|George Borrow
The flitch gave out last night, and we had nothin' but corn pone, buttermilk and potatoes.
Watch Yourself Go By|Al. G. Field
Put some at the bottom of a box, or chest, which is long enough to hold a flitch of bacon.
Cottage Economy|William Cobbett
Looking up, she caught sight of her master's great sallow chaps hanging like a flitch of bacon over the garret banister.
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour|R. S. Surtees

They were a model couple, and if they had gone to Dunmow for the flitch of bacon, they would have won it.
Crying for the Light, Vol. 2 [of 3]|J. Ewing Ritchie

British Dictionary definitions for flitch

flitch

/ (flɪtʃ) /

noun

a side of pork salted and cured

a steak cut from the side of certain fishes, esp halibut

a piece of timber cut lengthways from a tree trunk, esp one that is larger than 4 by 12 inches

verb

(tr) to cut (a tree trunk) into flitches

Word Origin for flitch

Old English flicce; related to Old Norse flikki, Middle Low German vlicke, Norwegian flika; see flesh

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