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The side of an animal, now only a pig when cured and salted; a side of bacon

The following morning before Nicholas awoke, Mulvey walked all the way to the village of Letterfrack, returning with a basket of cabbages and a flitch of bacon, two loaves of fresh bread and a plump broiling chicken.

{n} a side of bacon, the side of a dried hog
salted and cured abdominal wall of a side of pork fish steak usually cut from a halibut
A complete bundle of thin veneer sheets laid together in sequence as they are cut from a given log or section of a log
{f} cut into flitches
salted and cured abdominal wall of a side of pork
The outside piece of a sawed log; a slab
To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips; as, to flitch logs; to flitch bacon
A length of waste timber which has been cut from a tree trunk while making a squared log
One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam
A log sliced into thin veneer pieces, usually 1/16" thickness, slices are then bundled back to sell as a unit
{i} side of salted and cured pork; fish steak; beam, board (Carpentry)
The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon
A steel plate placed between two pieces of 2" lumber to form a reinforced header
Syn: Cant A portion of a log sawed on two or more sides and intended for remanufacture, as into lumber or sliced or sawed veneer The term also applies to the resulting sheets of veneer laid together in a bundle in sequence of cutting
A thin piece of wood, used often as a veneer
a tournament in which each pair must be a married couple
fish steak usually cut from a halibut
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