flitch
/flɪtʃ/
flitch noun: the flank or side of an animal, now almost exclusively a pig when cured and salted; a side of bacon.
Noun
flitch (plural flitches)
- The flank or side of an animal, now almost exclusively a pig when cured and salted; a side of bacon.
- The following morning before Nicholas awoke, Mulvey walked all the way to the village of Letterfrack, returning with a basket of cabbages and a flitch of bacon, two loaves of fresh bread and a plump broiling chicken.2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 95
- The programme was loosely derived from a folk tradition, the Great Dunmow Flitch, in which the most happily married couple in the village were rewarded with a gift of a flitch of beef.2004, Dominic Strinati, Stephen Wagg, Come on Down?: Popular Media Culture in Post-War Britain, Routledge, →ISBN, page 186
- A piece or strip cut off of something else, generally a piece of wood (timber).
- The Measure of a shell or Flitch of Timber.
If a piece be taken out of the middle of a round piece of Timber from end to end; there will be left two pieces, which they call Shells or Flitches.1706, Henry Coggeshall, The Art of Practical Measuring … The Third Edition, Corrected, page 39 - An edge chipper chips waney edges of a flitch of timber having parallel top and bottom sides, the flitch passing through feed roll pairs extends outward as a cantilever as it moves towards revolving chipper ...1972, United States. Patent Office, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office: Patents, page 130
- The Measure of a shell or Flitch of Timber.
Verb
flitch (third-person singular simple present flitches, present participle flitching, simple past and past participle flitched)
- To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips.
- to flitch logs
- to flitch bacon
flitch meaning in Tamil
flitch in Tamil
- மென்பலகைத் தகட்டடுக்கு, பெரிய மீன்இறைச்சிக் கண்டம்
Forms of flitch
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | flitches |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | flitches |
| present participle | flitching |
| past participle | flitched |
| past | flitched |
Origin of flitch
From Middle English flicche, from Old English fliċċe (“side of an animal, flitch”), from Proto-Germanic *flikkiją (“side, flitch”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁ḱ- (“to tear, peel off”). Cognate with Low German flikke, French flèche, Icelandic flikki (“flitch”), Middle Low German vlicke.
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Questions about flitch
- What does flitch mean?
- Flitch means the flank or side of an animal, now almost exclusively a pig when cured and salted; a side of bacon.
- What is flitch in Tamil?
- Flitch in Tamil is மென்பலகைத் தகட்டடுக்கு, பெரிய மீன்இறைச்சிக் கண்டம். See Flitch meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is flitch?
- Flitch can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce flitch?
- Flitch is pronounced /flɪtʃ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of flitch?
- The plural of flitch is flitches.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: flitch (page history and authors); flitch (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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