noun the outside piece of a sawed log; a slab.
2. flitch ·noun the side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon.
3. flitch ·add. ·noun to cut into, or off in, flitches or strips; as, to flitch logs; to flitch bacon.
4. flitch ·noun one of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam.