Flitch (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. the side of a hog (or, formerly, some other animal) salted and cured: a flitch of bacon.
  2. a steak cut from a halibut.
  3. Carpentry.
    • a piece, as a board, forming part of a flitch beam.
    • a thin piece of wood, as a veneer.
    • a bundle of veneers, arranged as cut from the log.
    • a log about to be cut into veneers.
    • cant2 (def. 8).
verb (used with object)
  1. to cut into flitches.
  2. to assemble (boards or the like) into a laminated construction.
noun
  1. a side of pork salted and cured
  2. a steak cut from the side of certain fishes, esp halibut
  3. a piece of timber cut lengthways from a tree trunk, esp one that is larger than 4 by 12 inches
verb
  1. to cut (a tree trunk) into flitches
Flitch (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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