Flitch \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 \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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]