Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A salted and cured side of bacon.
- noun A longitudinal cut from the trunk of a tree.
- noun One of several planks secured together to form a single beam.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A strap; a doubling-plate; a fishing-bar; a metal or wooden plate bolted to a beam or girder at a joint or other weak spot, to strengthen it and keep it straight when exposed to endwise thrust.
- noun The side of an animal (now only of a hog) salted and cured: chiefly used in the phrase a flitch of bacon.
- noun A steak from the side of a halibut, smoked or ready for smoking.
- noun In carpentry, a plank or slab; especially, one of several planks fastened side by side to form a compound beam.
- To cut into flitches: as, to
flitch hogs; to flitch halibut.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon.
- noun One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam.
- noun engraving The outside piece of a sawed log; a slab.
- transitive verb To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
side of an animal, now only apig when cured and salted; aside of bacon .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun salted and cured abdominal wall of a side of pork
- noun fish steak usually cut from a halibut
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A butt flitch is a lengthwise cut from the fat end of the tree (butt), near the base.
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A butt flitch is a lengthwise cut from the fat end of the tree (butt), near the base.
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[72] A flitch is a side of cured meat, in this case, pork.
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My second question is: can anyone tell me what a "butt flitch" is?
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My second question is: can anyone tell me what a "butt flitch" is?
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My second question is: can anyone tell me what a "butt flitch" is?
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My second question is: can anyone tell me what a "butt flitch" is?
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My second question is: can anyone tell me what a "butt flitch" is?
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He could see that the man riding toward him was plumb scared to death, looking this way and that, waiting to see a Red man flitch an arrow at him.
He Don't Know Him 2010
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But I had no time to dwell as I was off to Great Dunmow pictured above, land of the medieval flitch trials, so that meant a trip off to Liverpool Street to jump on the express train to Stansted.
2007 UK Tour (Leg One) Part Two K. A. Laity 2007
reesetee commented on the word flitch
1. A salted and cured side of bacon.
2. A longitudinal cut from the trunk of a tree.
3. One of several planks secured together to form a single beam.
Wonder which meaning came first?
July 11, 2007
slumry commented on the word flitch
Good word...so good, I had to filch it.
July 11, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word flitch
"... the name of a piece of small timber, supplied to ships for the purpose of sawing up into boat timber; so called, perhaps, from its small parts resembling a flitch of bacon."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 154
Looks like maybe the bacon meaning came first, reesetee.
October 11, 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word flitch
"Before the hard days of winter set in, he slaughtered the pig, and for a week stayed at home with the job of butchering. The dogs feasted on bones and scraps, and Pell roasted the head. Dogman salted the flitches and sold the rest."
The Bride's Farewell by Meg Rosoff, p 144
June 26, 2010