Flitch /(?)/

pl. Flitches

1. The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon.
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. [Eng.]

imp. & p. p. Flitched; p. pr. & vb. n. Flitching

1. To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips; as, to flitch logs; to flitch bacon.