flitch

Speech parts

1. flitch - Noun

2. flitch - Verb

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

side of bacon cleave chine gammon bacon chisel scythe croaker ball bar beam crop chip divide dice
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Antonyms

create increase bear build join connect
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Hypernyms

bacon fish steak

Derivatives

flitches

Examples

As 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

Close letter words and terms

flist flit flit around flite flitering basin fliting