Definitions for flitch

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Spelling: [flich]

IPA: /flɪtʃ/

Flitch is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 81 anagrams from letters in flitch (cfhilt).

Definitions for flitch

noun

1. the side of a hog (or, formerly, some other animal) salted and cured:
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. Carpentry. to assemble (boards or the like) into a laminated construction.

Origin of flitch

before 900; Middle English flicche, Old English flicca; cognate with Middle Low German vlicke, Old Norse flikki

Examples for flitch

An' now, if you'll slip up to me afther dusk, I'll send you down a couple o' bottles and a flitch.

Of Flixton in Lancashire the authorities suggest, “perhaps a town of the flitch”.

Ay, said the steward, but they were not such as will butter any cabbage to eat with this bacon; and so hung the flitch up again.

"What I have given my word to do, I must stick to," said the other; so he took the flitch and set off.

Camden informs us that he instituted the custom of the flitch of bacon of Dunmow.

The livin's no better, it's flitch every meal; they haven't had pie or cake since we came.

Even a flitch of bacon hung on a cord was riddled with their tiny teeth-marks.

When our supper of flitch and molasses was over one evening, therefore, I asked him how he meant to use his papers.

Here are butter and eggs, here is tea, here is sugar, and there is a flitch.

The fork timbers were let into the stern-post, and carried the transom, wrought out of a flitch of elm 31⁄2 in.