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.

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.

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. The outside piece of a sawed log; a slab.

transitive verb. To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips.

noun. The side of an animal, now only a pig when cured and salted; a side of bacon.

noun. salted and cured abdominal wall of a side of pork

noun. fish steak usually cut from a halibut

"A butt flitch is a lengthwise cut from the fat end of the tree (butt), near the base."

flitch of dunmow  

flitched  flitching  

bacon  fish steak  

Quassia  balladeer  bloater  boult  burn  

slab  

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