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Definition of: flitch
(flich) noun
1. A side (of a hog) salted and cured; side of bacon.
2. A strip or steak cut from the side of certain fishes, smoked or adapted for smoking.
3. In carpentry, one of the parts of a compound beam.
4. A length of stripped log from whose circumference thin sheets of veneer are cut; also, the sheet so cut.
—v.t. To cut into flitches. [OE flicce]
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