flitch Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun fish steak usually cut from a halibut
  2. noun salted and cured abdominal wall of a side of pork
    side of bacon.

WordNet

Flitch noun
Etymology
OE. flicche, flikke, AS. flicce, akin to Icel. flikki; cf. Icel. flik flap, tatter; perh. akin to E. fleck. Cf. Flick, n.
Wordforms
plural Flitches
Definitions
  1. The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon. Swift.
  2. One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam.
  3. The outside piece of a sawed log; a slab. Eng.

Webster 1913