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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Laura Cohen, acted as bearer of the flitch, a role that only men have done previously.
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
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
Moreover on Christmas Day she had to ask at the abbess’ kitchen for “livery bacon” for the convent, four messes for each lady; a flitch was reckoned to provide ten messes.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Eileen Power
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
From the rafters hang flitches of bacon, hams, bunches of onions, herbs, etc.
From Contemporary One-Act Plays by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
The flitches before smoking are rubbed with bran or very fine sawdust and after smoking are often kept in clear, dry wood ashes or very dry sand.”
From Home Pork Making by A. W. Fulton
"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 Stanley John Weyman
We have occasionally sent a cask or two of pork, some flitches or hams, to market; but as a rule we consume our pigs on the farm.
From Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand by William Delisle Hay
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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