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flitch
[ flich ]
noun
- the side of a hog (or, formerly, some other animal) salted and cured:
a flitch of bacon.
- a steak cut from a halibut.
- Carpentry.
- a piece, as a board, forming part of a flitch beam.
- a thin piece of wood, as a veneer.
- a bundle of veneers, arranged as cut from the log.
- a log about to be cut into veneers.
verb (used with object)
- to cut into flitches.
- Carpentry. to assemble (boards or the like) into a laminated construction.
flitch
/ ڱɪʃ /
noun
- a side of pork salted and cured
- a steak cut from the side of certain fishes, esp halibut
- a piece of timber cut lengthways from a tree trunk, esp one that is larger than 4 by 12 inches
verb
- tr to cut (a tree trunk) into flitches
Other 51Թ Forms
- ܲ·ڱٳ adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of flitch1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of flitch1
Example Sentences
The prior, impressed by their devotion, gave them a flitch of bacon.
The abbreviation has given rise to a nickname the pilots use for the characteristic, “the flitch trap.”
Americans who fly the 777 say that on their airplanes, in flitch mode, the auto throttle does not work.
Moreover on Christmas Day she had to ask at the abbess’ kitchen for “livery bacon” for the convent, four messes for each lady; a flitch was reckoned to provide ten messes.
There were now fifteen men in all, and their provisions were reduced to limited rations of bread, one barrel of Dutch cheese, one flitch of bacon, and some small runlets of wine, oil, and vinegar.
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