| Flitch 1. (n.) The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon. 2. (n.) One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam. 3. (n.) The outside piece of a sawed log; a slab. Thesaurus Entries butt, chitterlings, cochon de lait, cracklings, fat back, flitch, gammon, ham, ham steak, haslet, headcheese, jambon, jambonneau, lard, picnic ham, pieds de cochon, pig, pork, porkpie, salt pork, side of bacon, small ham, sowbelly, suckling pig, trotters |