flitch

• It would be very easy to model such a log and knots with 3Dsolid entities, and then use the SLICE command to cut the assembly just as with a saw blade: flitch -, rift -, or quarter-sawn as required. —  All Discussion Groups: Message List - root
• And know as well that all the bacon From one the self-same flitch was taken: The air, indeed, about our green Is known to make the stomach keen Is that the case?" —  Aesop, in Rhyme Old Friends in a New Dress
• He will steal the bacon-flitch, or empty the potato-kish, or fling the baby down on the floor, or occasionally will throw the few poor articles of furniture about the room with a strength and vigor altogether disproportioned to his diminutive size. —  Irish Wonders
• Mistress Clarissa and her party had the sanded parlour for themselves; the young men, with their cramped legs, stumbled into the flitch-hung kitchen, the more entertaining room of the two, and had plates of beans and bacon, a toast and a tankard; for the day was in September, and the wind was already bracing both to body and appetite. —  Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes
• Come in to breakfast, and now you shall know what a fresh egg means, for we have lots of poultry Many thanks to you, Mr. Roberts, I and my ould woman know that Tut--nonsense, man; lots of poultry, I say--always a pig or two, and never without a ham or a flitch, you old dog. —  The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One

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