flitch

noun

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.”

   “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.”

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. 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 ...”

verb

1. (transitive)To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips.

   “to flitch logs”

   “to flitch bacon”