Flitch

1.

The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon.

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.

1.

To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips; as, to flitch logs; to flitch bacon.