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flitch

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flitch  (flch)
n.
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
Noun
a side of pork salted and cured [Old English flicce]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.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


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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
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
He looked at the small remains of a flitch, and then looked undecidedly at Pigling.
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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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