Hypertext Webster Gateway: "flitch"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Flitch \Flitch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flitched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Flitching}.] [See {Flitch}, n.]
To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips; as, to flitch
logs; to flitch bacon.
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.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
flitch
n 1: fish steak usually cut from a halibut
2: salted and cured abdominal wall of a side of pork [syn: {side
of bacon}]
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