flitch
nounEtymology
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.
- inherited from *pleh₁ḱ-✻
- inherited from *flikkiją✻
- inherited from fliċċe
- inherited from flicche
Definitions
The flank or side of an animal, now almost exclusively a pig when cured and salted
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.
- 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.
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.
- 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 ...
To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips.
- to flitch logs
- to flitch bacon
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for flitch. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA