flitch
IPA: fɫˈɪtʃ
noun
- The flank or side of an animal, now almost exclusively a pig when cured and salted; a side of bacon.
- A piece or strip cut off of something else, generally a piece of wood (timber).
verb
- (transitive) To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips.
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Examples of "flitch" in Sentences
- Ainsworth wrote a novel on the flitch of bacon.
- The metal plate s within the beam are known as flitch plates.
- In that common form it is sometimes referenced as a steel flitch beam.
- By the way, I hope to entice you with a nice Flitch of Bacon sometime.
- In that common form it is sometimes referenced as a 'steel flitch beam'.
- A flitch is the side, or a steak cut from the side, of an animal or fish.
- A 'flitch' is the side, or a steak cut from the side, of an animal or fish.
- A side of unsliced bacon was once known as a flitch it is now known as a slab.
- The awarding of a flitch of bacon to married couples who can swear to not having regretted their marriage for a year and a day is an old tradition, the remnants of which still survive in some pockets in England.
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