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flitch

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Noun

flitch (plural flitches)

The flank or side of an animal, now almost exclusively a pig when cured and salted; a side of bacon.
- 2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage 2003, page 95:
  The following morning before Nicholas awoke, Mulvey walked all the way to the village of Letterfrack, returning with a basket of cabbages and a flitch of bacon, two loaves of fresh bread and a plump broiling chicken.
- 2004, Dominic Strinati, Stephen Wagg, Come on Down?: Popular Media Culture in Post-War Britain, Routledge (ISBN 9781134923687), page 186:
  The programme was loosely derived from a folk tradition, the Great Dunmow Flitch, in which the most happily married couple in the village were rewarded with a gift of a flitch of beef.
A piece or strip cut off of something else, generally a piece of wood (timber).
- 1706, Henry Coggeshall, The Art of Practical Measuring [...] The Third Edition, Corrected, page 39:
  The Measure of a shell or Flitch of Timber.
  If a piece be taken out of the middle of a round piece of Timber from end to end; there will be left two pieces, which they call Shells or Flitches.
- 1972, United States. Patent Office, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office: Patents, page 130:
  An edge chipper chips waney edges of a flitch of timber having parallel top and bottom sides, the flitch passing through feed roll pairs extends outward as a cantilever as it moves towards revolving chipper ...

Translations

Verb

flitch (flitches, present participle flitching; past and past participle flitched)

(transitive) To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips.
to flitch logs
to flitch bacon

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