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/flɪtʃ/ · noun
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.
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 flitch logs
to flitch bacon
Use flitch when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Flitch means The flank or side of an animal, now almost exclusively a pig when cured and salted; a side of bacon..
Common synonyms include side of bacon.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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