flitch
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flitch
- /flɪtʃ/ UK
Rhymes with -ɪtʃ
Where it comes from
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.
noun 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.
- 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.
verb flitches · flitching · flitched
- To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips. to flitch logs
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noun side of bacon
| Français | flèche |
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