FLITCH

flitch, side of bacon

(noun) salted and cured abdominal wall of a side of pork

flitch

(noun) fish steak usually cut from a halibut

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

flitch (plural flitches)

The flank or side of an animal, now almost exclusively a pig when cured and salted; a side of bacon.

A piece or strip cut off of something else, generally a piece of wood (timber).

Verb

flitch (third-person singular simple present flitches, present participle flitching, simple past and past participle flitched)

(transitive) To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips.

Source: Wiktionary


Flitch, n.; pl. Flitches. Etym: [OE. flicche, flikke, AS. flicce, akin to Icel. flikki; cf. Icel. flik flap, tatter; perh. akin to E. fleck. Cf. Flick, n.]

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

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

3. The outside piece of a sawed log; a slab. [Eng.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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