flitch
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The prior, impressed by their devotion, gave them a flitch of bacon.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2024
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
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
But, alas, the cottage door was barred, and there was no trace of the black-bearded sinner, save a flitch of bacon and the beer barrel which stood in the most inaccessible of pantries.
From Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse by Various
Yes, yes—and the bacon,” said he, elevating his left hand, “six flitches I think there were; they used to be in this very room—” “Ay, sure did ur,” said Mr. Bumpkin. p.
From The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit by Richard Harris
We next went to several unfurnished rooms, fronting the yard, in one of which were hanging several flitches of bacon, beneath which he stopped, and, looking up, gazed intently upon them.
From The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] by George Henry Borrow
Two precautions are necessary: first, to hang the flitches where no rain comes down upon them: second, not to let them be so near the fire as to melt.
From Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend by William Cobbett
This keeledar was a most unseemly-looking man; a great fat buffalo of a fellow, with enormous flitches of fat hanging over his hips.
From Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment by John Shipp
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
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
