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flitch

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
flitch /flɪtʃ/

▶noun

1 a slab of wood cut from a tree trunk.

2 (also flitch plate) the strengthening plate in a flitch beam.

3 chiefly dialect a side of bacon.

– origin OE flicce, orig. denoting the cured side of any meat, of Gmc origin.

'flitch' also found in these Oxford entries:

bacon - flitch beam

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