flitch: Meaning and Definition of

flitch

1. the side of a hog (or, formerly, some other animal) salted and cured: a flitch of bacon.
2. a steak cut from a halibut.
1. a piece, as a board, forming part of a flitch beam.
2. a thin piece of wood, as a veneer.
3. a bundle of veneers, arranged as cut from the log.
4. a log about to be cut into veneers.
5. cant2 (def. 8).

1. to cut into flitches.
2. to assemble (boards or the like) into a laminated construction.