0 a piece of meat consisting of the side of a pig, made into bacon (= preserved meat):
1 a thick, flat piece of wood cut from the trunk (= main part) of a tree:
The old bacon lofts still have the bars and hooks where the flitches were hung to smoke.
Displayed in the shop are flitches of bacon, clusters of garlic, shiny tomatoes, home-baked bread.
UK The pub is famous for offering a "flitch", or side of bacon, every Whit Monday to any married couple who can prove they haven't quarrelled during the past year.
The hams are salted for four months and the bacon flitches for three weeks.
Flitches are unfinished planks that need to be trimmed.
Slabs are sawn from a trunk, flitches are split from it.
The last flitch trials were held in the town in the summer of 2012, with the next scheduled for 2016.
