\Flitch\, n.; pl. {Flitches}. [OE. flicche, flikke, AS.
flicce, akin to Icel. flikki; cf. Icel. fl[=i]k flap, tatter;
perh. akin to E. fleck. Cf. {Flick}, n.]
1. The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon.
   --Swift.
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.]

\Flitch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flitched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Flitching}.] [See {Flitch}, n.]
To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips; as, to flitch
logs; to flitch bacon.