English Dictionary

flitch

/flɪtʃ/

noun

The flank or side of an animal, now almost exclusively a pig when cured and salted; a side of bacon. / A piece or strip cut off of something else, generally a piece of wood (timber).

The butcher carefully sliced the flitch of bacon.

意味（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.

意味（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.

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.