flitch
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Desmond and Minette Carter are among the far-flung flitch winners, having travelled to Essex from Detroit in 2022.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2024
Laura Cohen, acted as bearer of the flitch, a role that only men have done previously.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2024
Fitzwalter revealed his true identity and gave his land to the priory on the condition a flitch should be awarded to any couple who could claim they were similarly devoted.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2024
Almost three months of the wizened pay of the three-day week had been uncomfortable enough, but the strike that followed had nearly emptied the flour sack and gobbled up the last flitch of bacon.
From Time Magazine Archive
When our supper of flitch and molasses was over one evening, therefore, I asked him how he meant to use his papers.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various
And some brought dumples o' woo, And some brought flitches o' bacon, And kebbucks and cruppocks enow; But Jenny Muirhead brought a capon.
From The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) by James Hogg
They cleared out my chimney of its last hams and flitches of bacon, they broke in my last barrel of wine; they opened my wardrobe—scenting down to the very bottom like a pack of hounds.
From The Pl?biscite or, A Miller's Story of the War by Alexandre Chatrian
A brooding odour of disease filled the gaunt, wide-raftered room, infected the shadowy hanging flitches, and grew stronger and more sickly towards the staircase at the farther end.
From Sophia A Romance by Stanley John Weyman
From the rafters hang flitches of bacon, hams, bunches of onions, herbs, etc.
From Contemporary One-Act Plays by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
For two tolerable flitches, dry a stone of salt over the fire, till it is scalding hot.
From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Mary Eaton
Then it is hauled up with a steam winch and towed to a whaling station in some bay on the coast, where it is flitched.
From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Sven Anders Hedin
