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flitch

flitch
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [flich]
    • /flɪtʃ/
    • /flɪtʃ/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [flich]
    • /flɪtʃ/

Definitions of flitch word

  • noun flitch the side of a hog (or, formerly, some other animal) salted and cured: a flitch of bacon. 1
  • noun flitch a steak cut from a halibut. 1
  • noun flitch Carpentry. a piece, as a board, forming part of a flitch beam. a thin piece of wood, as a veneer. a bundle of veneers, arranged as cut from the log. a log about to be cut into veneers. cant2 (def 8). 1
  • verb with object flitch to cut into flitches. 1
  • verb with object flitch Carpentry. to assemble (boards or the like) into a laminated construction. 1
  • noun flitch A slab of timber cut from a tree trunk, usually from the outside. 1

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Origin of flitch

First appearance:

before 900
One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English flicche, Old English flicca; cognate with Middle Low German vlicke, Old Norse flikki

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Parts of speech for Flitch

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

flitch popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 69% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.

flitch usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for flitch

verb flitch

  • shave — to remove a growth of beard with a razor.
  • slice — a thin, flat piece cut from something: a slice of bread.
  • rip — to cut or tear apart in a rough or vigorous manner: to rip open a seam; to rip up a sheet.
  • slash — to cut with a violent sweeping stroke or by striking violently and at random, as with a knife or sword.
  • carve — If you carve an object, you make it by cutting it out of a substance such as wood or stone. If you carve something such as wood or stone into an object, you make the object by cutting it out.

noun flitch

  • pancetta — Italian pork belly cured with salt, pepper, and other spices and air-dried up to four months, tightly rolled in a cylinder.
  • gammon — deceitful nonsense; bosh.
  • bacon — Bacon is salted or smoked meat which comes from the back or sides of a pig.
  • sowbelly — fat salt pork taken from the belly of a hog.
  • pork — the flesh of hogs used as food.

Antonyms for flitch

verb flitch

  • combine — If you combine two or more things or if they combine, they exist together.
  • unite — to join, combine, or incorporate so as to form a single whole or unit.
  • sew — to ground (a vessel) at low tide (sometimes fol by up).
  • increase — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
  • create — To create something means to cause it to happen or exist.

Top questions with flitch

  • what is a flitch town?
  • what is flitch?
  • what is a flitch beam?
  • what is a flitch?
  • what does flitch mean?
  • what is a flitch plate?
  • how to make a flitch beam?

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