/flich/ , n.
1. the side of a hog (or, formerly, some other animal) salted and cured: a flitch of bacon.
2. a steak cut from a halibut.
3. Carpentry.
a. a piece, as a board, forming part of a flitch beam.
b. a thin piece of wood, as a veneer.
c. a bundle of veneers, arranged as cut from the log.
d. a log about to be cut into veneers.
e. cant 2 (def. 8).
v.t.
4. to cut into flitches.
5. Carpentry. to assemble (boards or the like) into a laminated construction.
[ bef. 900; ME flicche, OE flicca; c. MLG vlicke, ON flikki ]