Flitch
Flitch , noun
[Old English flicche, flikke, Anglo-Saxon flicce, akin to Icelandic flikki; compare Icelandic flīk flap, tatter; perh. akin to English fleck. Compare Flick, n.]
1.
The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon. — Swift
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. [English]
Flitch , transitive verb
[See Flitch, n.]
To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips; as, to flitch logs; to flitch bacon.