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noun

Flitch n. (pl. flitches)

The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon.

One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam.

The outside piece of a sawed log; a slab. (Eng.)

verb

Flitch v. t. (past & past part. flitched; pres. part. flitching) To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips; as, to flitch logs; to flitch bacon.

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Etymology of 'Flitch'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Flitch" Quotes from Famous Books

... a more cheerful view. The old gentleman could scarcely refuse me a meal, and I fell to reconstructing my breakfast. Bacon and eggs would content me, but I wanted the better part of a flitch of bacon and half a hundred eggs. And then, while my mouth was watering in anticipation, there was a click and the ...

— The Thirty-nine Steps • John Buchan

... no man presume to think Of this cup I will not drink. Where the flitch we hope to find, Not even a hook ...

— Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

... has often told me, that upon a catechising day, when Sir Roger has been pleased with a boy that answers well, he has ordered a bible to be given him next day for his encouragement; and sometimes accompanies it with a flitch of bacon to his mother. Sir Roger, has likewise added five pounds a year to the clerk's place: and that he may encourage the young fellows to make themselves perfect in the church service, has promised upon the ...

— The De Coverley Papers - From 'The Spectator' • Joseph Addison and Others

... period, are preserved by the inhabitants of these parts of the Forest, one of whom reports an act of cruelty perpetrated on a householder living in the little hamlet of Drybrook, who was struck down, and his eyes knocked out, for refusing to give up a flitch of bacon to a foraging party. Another legend, relative to the same neighbourhood, preserves the memory of a skirmish called "Edge Hill's Fight," from the spot on which it occurred. It is true that some of the neighbouring foresters suppose ...

— The Forest of Dean - An Historical and Descriptive Account • H. G. Nicholls

... estate and all the dogs know me. On your estate I not only know the dogs, but I have just finished an inspection and I know the location of every dairy, smoke- house, larder and oven, I might almost say of every loaf, cheese, ham, flitch, wine-vat and oil-jar on the estate, not to mention every store- room where I might get us hats, tunics, sandals, quilts and ...

— Andivius Hedulio • Edward Lucas White

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