1. flitch - Noun
2. flitch - Verb
The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon.
One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam.
The outside piece of a sawed log; a slab.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAs Flitch dryly remarked when Greybeard commented on the graveyard, "Ah, they keep a-planting of 'em, but there ain't any more of 'em growing up.”. Brian Aldiss
The flitch hangs never so high but a dog will look out for the bone. Danish Proverb