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[syn: flitch, side of bacon]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Flitch \Flitch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flitched; p. pr. & vb. n.
Flitching.] [See Flitch, n.]
To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips; as, to flitch
logs; to flitch bacon.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Flitch \Flitch\, n.; pl. Flitches. [OE. flicche, flikke, AS.
flicce, akin to Icel. flikki; cf. Icel. fl[imac]k flap,
tatter; perh. akin to E. fleck. Cf. Flick, n.]
1. The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon.
--Swift.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster]
3. The outside piece of a sawed log; a slab. [Eng.]
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
flitch
n 1: fish steak usually cut from a halibut
2: salted and cured abdominal wall of a side of pork [syn:
flitch, side of bacon]