flitch
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 and Cyclopedia
- 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.
- verb To cut into flitches: as, to flitch hogs; to flitch halibut.
- 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.
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 flitch is a side of cured meat, in this case, pork.
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Those who can prove that they had “lived in harmony and fidelity” for the past twelve months were awarded a flitch, defined as a “salted and cured side of bacon.”
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Those who can prove that they had “lived in harmony and fidelity” for the past twelve months were awarded a flitch, defined as a “salted and cured side of bacon.”
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Nuts for the nerves, a flitch for the flue and for to rejoice the chambers of the heart the spirits of the spice isles, curry and cinnamon, chutney and cloves.
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Every flitch, every eye-piece, and every chine is buried under the walling; and I fed them pigs with my own hands, Master Swithin, little thinking they would come to this end.
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Nor let the supposition of matrimonial differences frighten you: honey-moon lasts not now-a-days above a fortnight; and Dunmow flitch, as I have been informed, was never claimed; though some say once it was.
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Bacon and eggs would content me, but I wanted the better part of a flitch of bacon and half a hundred eggs.
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He had scrounged some eggs from Isabella, there was a flitch of bacon that belonged to the Mess, and Sharpe could almost taste the meal already.
Note
The word 'flitch' comes from Old English.
