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Flitch

noun
(pl. flitches)
1.
Fish steak usually cut from a halibut.
2.
Salted and cured abdominal wall of a side of pork.  Synonym: side of bacon.





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"Flitch" Quotes from Famous Books



... at a slow pace, in weird, ogre-like procession, the white people are for a time entirely mystified as to what they may be. Nor can it be told until they are close up. Then it is seen that they are human beings after all—Fuegian savages, each having the head thrust through a flitch of whale-blubber that falls, poncho-fashion, over the shoulders, draping down ...
— The Land of Fire - A Tale of Adventure • Mayne Reid


Words linked to "Flitch" :   fish steak, side of pork, gammon, bacon


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