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
The prior, impressed by their devotion, gave them a flitch of bacon.
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
The speaker is a remarkable man, a "rangy, gangling flitch" who broods away his days in the company of the "fops and fools of the coffeehouses" of 17th century London.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Offer the ducks like the Dunmow flitch of bacon to the most happily married couple in Florence."
From The Belovéd Vagabond by William John Locke
The flitches before smoking are rubbed with bran or very fine sawdust and after smoking are often kept in clear, dry wood ashes or very dry sand.”
From Home Pork Making by A. W. Fulton
The others counted my mother’s hams and flitches of bacon, and the strings of onions throwing flickering shadows in the lamplight.
From Seven Frozen Sailors by George Manville Fenn
Beyond the capacity of the casks taken out for the reception of the cargo, a large quantity of blubber “in bulk,” or in massive flitches, had been stowed on the top.
From Memorials of the Sea My Father: Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby by William Scoresby
From the rafters hang flitches of bacon, hams, bunches of onions, herbs, etc.
From Contemporary One-Act Plays by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
At one time, indeed, all sorts of curious packages passed free under the franking privilege, such as dogs, a cow, parcels of lace, bales of stockings, boxes of medicine, flitches of bacon, &c.
From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Robert Cochrane
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
