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Flitch [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The side of a hog salted and cured.

Flitch [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon.

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.

Flitches [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913