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Entry 4 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Flitch

· IPA /flɪtʃ/
01 n. The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon.
pl. Flitches ((#))
  1. 1.
    The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon.
  2. 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. 3.
    The outside piece of a sawed log; a slab.[Eng.]
02 v. t. To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips; as, to flitch logs; to flitch bacon.
imp. & p. p. Flitched; p. pr. & vb. n. Flitching
  1. 1.
    To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips; as, to flitch logs; to flitch bacon.