noun
- sides of bacon cured and smoked as slabs
- thick planks or beams cut from logs
Usage: construction; woodworking
Examples
- The butcher hung several flitches of bacon in the smokehouse.
- She ordered two flitches from the local farm for the restaurant.
- The carpenter selected oak flitches for the barn’s framework.
- Traditional flitches were cured with salt and hung to dry.
- The sawmill produced flitches of various widths for construction.
- Flitches of hickory-smoked bacon filled the deli case.