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Webster 1913 Edition
Flitch
Flitch
,Noun.
pl.
Flitches
(#)
. [OE. ]
flicche
, flikke
, AS. flicce
, akin to Icel. flikki
; cf. Icel. flīk
flap, tatter; perh. akin to E. fleck
. Cf. Flick
, Noun.
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.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Flitch
FLITCH
, n.The side of a hog salted and cured.
Definition 2024
flitch
flitch
English
Noun
flitch (plural flitches)
- The side of an animal, now only a pig when cured and salted; a side of bacon.
- 2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage 2003, p. 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.
- 2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage 2003, p. 95:
Translations
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.
- to flitch logs
- to flitch bacon