Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Flitches"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Flitch \Flitch\, n.; pl. {Flitches}. [OE. flicche, flikke, AS.
flicce, akin to Icel. flikki; cf. Icel. fl[=i]k flap, tatter;
perh. akin to E. fleck. Cf. {Flick}, n.]
1. The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon.
--Swift.

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. The outside piece of a sawed log; a slab. [Eng.]

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