flitch
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Laura Cohen, acted as bearer of the flitch, a role that only men have done previously.
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
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
My client gave me twenty crowns, a quantity of butter and a flitch of bacon.
From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Bartholomew Sastrow
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
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
They went; and Mamsell Westphalen sat alone in her sadness under her flitches of bacon and hams and sausages.
From In the Year '13 A Tale of Mecklenburg Life by Fritz Reuter
Let’s down wi’ them flitches o’ the shark-meat: for it’s them that’s driftin’ us along.
From The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Mayne Reid
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
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
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