flitch
pronunciation
How to pronounce flitch in British English:
UK [flɪtʃ]
How to pronounce flitch in American English:
US [flɪtʃ]
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- Noun:
- fish steak usually cut from a halibut
- salted and cured abdominal wall of a side of pork
Word Origin
- flitch
- flitch: see flesh
- flitch (n.)
- "side of bacon," Middle English flicche (c. 1200), "side of a slaughtered animal," especially the salted and cured side of a hog, from Old English flicce "flitch of bacon, ham," from Proto-Germanic *flekkja (cognates: Old Norse flikki, Middle Low German vlicke "piece of flesh"). Not immediately from flesh (n.), but perhaps from the same PIE root, *pleik- "to tear" (see flay). The Flitch of Dunmow was presented every year at Little Dunmow, in Essex, to any married couple who could prove they had lived together without quarreling for a year and a day, a custom mentioned in early references as dating to mid-13c., revived 19c.
Example
- 1. The deformation and its reason of the flitch plate of transformer core are introduced . The adjustment method and measure are presented .