Thesaurus / flitch
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synonyms for flitch
- carve
- divide
- rip
- slash
- slice
- amputate
- behead
- bisect
- bite
- chine
- chip
- chisel
- cleave
- clip
- crop
- curtail
- dice
- dispatch
- dissect
- dissever
- facet
- fell
- gash
- guillotine
- hack
- hash
- hew
- intersect
- lacerate
- level
- lop
- massacre
- mince
- mow
- nick
- notch
- part
- penetrate
- perforate
- pierce
- prune
- puncture
- quarter
- rabbet
- raze
- reap
- rend
- rive
- saber
- saw
- scarify
- scissor
- score
- scythe
- separate
- shear
- sickle
- shave
- slaughter
- slay
- slit
- sliver
- snip
- lay open
- mow down
- skive
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
How to use flitch in a sentence
Here are butter and eggs, here is tea, here is sugar, and there is a flitch.
LAVENGROGEORGE BORROWNo one can smell boiled bacon far; but fried flitch can be smelled a mile by a good nose.
FIFTY YEARS IN CHAINSCHARLES BALLOf Flixton in Lancashire the authorities suggest, “perhaps a town of the flitch”.
ARCHAIC ENGLANDHAROLD BAYLEYOffer the ducks like the Dunmow flitch of bacon to the most happily married couple in Florence.
THE BELOVD VAGABONDWILLIAM J. LOCKE"He'd flitch his own mother," ventured Jim, on whose brain the dipperful of whiskey was producing mixed results.
A DREAM OF EMPIREWILLIAM HENRY VENABLEThe flitch ought not be dried up to the hardness of a board, and yet it ought to be perfectly dry.
COTTAGE ECONOMYWILLIAM COBBETTI have never made any flitch of sheep-bacon; but I will; for there is nothing like having a store of meat in a house.
COTTAGE ECONOMYWILLIAM COBBETTA few luxuries were mentioned such as a flitch of bacon, cheese and oil.
DOMESTIC LIFE IN VIRGINIA IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURYANNIE LASH JESTERTwo married couples have just been examined at Dunmow, and awarded the 'historic' flitch for conjugal happiness.
TWO SIDES OF THE FACEARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCHThey were a model couple, and if they had gone to Dunmow for the flitch of bacon, they would have won it.
CRYING FOR THE LIGHT, VOL. 2 [OF 3]J. EWING RITCHIEWORDS RELATED TO FLITCH
- amputate
- behead
- bisect
- bite
- carve
- chine
- chip
- chisel
- cleave
- clip
- crop
- curtail
- dice
- dispatch
- dissect
- dissever
- divide
- facet
- fell
- flitch
- gash
- guillotine
- hack
- hash
- hew
- intersect
- lacerate
- lay open
- level
- lop
- massacre
- mince
- mow
- mow down
- nick
- notch
- part
- penetrate
- perforate
- pierce
- prune
- puncture
- quarter
- rabbet
- raze
- reap
- rend
- rip
- rive
- saber
- saw
- scarify
- scissor
- score
- scythe
- separate
- shave
- shear
- sickle
- skive
- slash
- slaughter
- slay
- slice
- slit
- sliver
- snip
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.