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flitch [flɪtʃ] n 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 vb
(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] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Translations flitch n → Speckseite f; (of halibut) → Heilbuttschnitte f How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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 He looked at the small remains of a flitch, and then looked undecidedly at Pigling. 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. |
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