Flitch

·noun The outside piece of a sawed log; a slab.

II. Flitch ·noun The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon.

III. Flitch ·add. ·noun To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips; as, to flitch logs; to flitch bacon.

IV. Flitch ·noun One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam.