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flitch
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun flitch has 2 senses
- flitch(n = noun.food) Array - fish steak usually cut from a halibut; Array is a kind of fish steak
- flitch(n = noun.food) side of bacon - salted and cured abdominal wall of a side of pork; Array has parts: gammon
is a part of side of pork
is a kind of bacon
CIDE DICTIONARY
flitch, n. [OE. flicche, flikke, AS. flicce, akin to Icel. flikki; cf. Icel. flīk flap, tatter; perh. akin to E. fleck. Cf. Flick, n. ].
- The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon. Swift. [1913 Webster]
- One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam. [1913 Webster]
- The outside piece of a sawed log; a slab. [1913 Webster]
To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips; as, to flitch logs; to flitch bacon. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
flitch, n.
1 a side of bacon.
2 a slab of timber from a tree-trunk, usu. from the outside.
3 (in full flitch-plate) a strengthening plate in a beam etc.
1 a side of bacon.
2 a slab of timber from a tree-trunk, usu. from the outside.
3 (in full flitch-plate) a strengthening plate in a beam etc.
Idiom
flitch-beam a compound beam, esp. of an iron plate between two slabs of wood.
Etymology
OE flicce f. Gmc
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