noun
- a side of bacon or salt pork
- a timber beam or plank, especially one sawn from a log
Usage: construction, carpentry
Examples
- The butcher hung a flitch of bacon in the shop window.
- She bought a flitch of salt pork to use in the stew.
- The carpenter selected a sturdy flitch of oak for the frame.
- Old barns were often built with thick flitches of timber.
- A flitch of bacon was a common staple in colonial kitchens.