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3 definitions found 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 1.6 [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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