flitch

About 0.04 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The flank or side of an animal, now almost exclusively a pig when cured and salted; a side of bacon.
2. noun A piece or strip cut off of something else, generally a piece of wood (timber).
3. verb To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips.

   to flitch logs

Similar words

side of bacon flanck fleed flick flanch swineflesh forequarter flank flanching swine-flesh

Often followed by

of plate is beam plates was and had beams

Word family

flitches