flitches

Noun

flitch (plural flitches)

1. 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
2. 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

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