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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The prior, impressed by their devotion, gave them a flitch of bacon.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2024
Desmond and Minette Carter are among the far-flung flitch winners, having travelled to Essex from Detroit in 2022.
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
As to the time that it requires to smoke a flitch, it must depend a good deal upon whether there be a constant fire beneath, and whether the fire be large or small.
From Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend by William Cobbett
Still, boxes of biscuits would be their portion, while, getting in early, he would be able to secure easy freight, flitches of bacon or the like.
From The Tale of a Trooper by Clutha N. (Clutha Nantes) Mackenzie
They cleared out my chimney of its last hams and flitches of bacon, they broke in my last barrel of wine; they opened my wardrobe—scenting down to the very bottom like a pack of hounds.
From The Pl?biscite or, A Miller's Story of the War by Alexandre Chatrian
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 Berthold Auerbach
From the smoke-blackened oak beams hung hams and flitches of bacon more than one would take the trouble to count.
From Seven Frozen Sailors by George Manville Fenn
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 William Cobbett
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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