flitch

flitch (fl

ch)

1. A salted and cured side of bacon.

2. A longitudinal cut from the trunk of a tree.

3. One of several planks secured together to form a single beam.

[Middle English flicche, from Old English flicce.]

flitch [flɪtʃ]

1. (Cookery) a side of pork salted and cured

2. (Cookery) a steak cut from the side of certain fishes, esp halibut

3. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) a piece of timber cut lengthways from a tree trunk, esp one that is larger than 4 by 12 inches

(Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) (tr) to cut (a tree trunk) into flitches

[Old English flicce; related to Old Norse flikki, Middle Low German vlicke, Norwegian flika; see flesh]

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Noun	1.	flitch - fish steak usually cut from a halibut fish steak - cross-section slice of a large fish
	2.	flitch - salted and cured abdominal wall of a side of pork side of bacon gammon - hind portion of a side of bacon side of pork - dressed half of a hog carcass bacon - back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried

Translations

flitch [flɪtʃ] N flitch of bacon → hoja f de tocino

flitch

n → Speckseite f; (of halibut) → Heilbuttschnitte f

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Bacon
fish steak
gammon
side of bacon
side of pork

But to be a town councilor and discuss how many dustmen are needed, and how chimneys shall be constructed in the town in which I don't live--to serve on a jury and try a peasant who's stolen a flitch of bacon, and listen for six hours at a stretch to all sorts of jabber from the counsel for the defense and the prosecution, and the president cross-examining my old half-witted Alioshka, 'Do you admit, prisoner in the dock, the fact of the removal of the

Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

He looked at the small remains of a flitch, and then looked undecidedly at Pigling.

The Original Peter Rabbit Books by Potter, Beatrix View in context

I trust well that a fool---I mean, d'ye see me, sirs, a fool that is free of his guild and master of his craft, and can give as much relish and flavour to a cup of wine as ever a flitch of bacon can---I say, brethren, such a fool shall never want a wise clerk to pray for or fight for him at a strait, while I can say a mass or flourish a partisan.

Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context

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