flitch
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Desmond and Minette Carter are among the far-flung flitch winners, having travelled to Essex from Detroit in 2022.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2024
The prior, impressed by their devotion, gave them a flitch of bacon.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2024
Laura Cohen, acted as bearer of the flitch, a role that only men have done previously.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2024
The speaker is a remarkable man, a "rangy, gangling flitch" who broods away his days in the company of the "fops and fools of the coffeehouses" of 17th century London.
From Time Magazine Archive
As to the time that it requires to smoke a flitch, it must depend a good deal upon whether there be a constant fire beneath, and whether the fire be large or small.
From Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend by Cobbett, William
Get the boneless, in 5 to 8 pound flitches.
From Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam
They cleared out my chimney of its last hams and flitches of bacon, they broke in my last barrel of wine; they opened my wardrobe—scenting down to the very bottom like a pack of hounds.
From The Pl?biscite or, A Miller's Story of the War by Chatrian, Alexandre
"Easy! easy, Tom Miller!" the host interposed, affecting an air of assurance, even while he cast an eye of trouble at his flitches.
From The Story of Francis Cludde by Weyman, Stanley John
Beyond the capacity of the casks taken out for the reception of the cargo, a large quantity of blubber “in bulk,” or in massive flitches, had been stowed on the top.
From Memorials of the Sea My Father: Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby by Scoresby, William
And some brought dumples o' woo, And some brought flitches o' bacon, And kebbucks and cruppocks enow; But Jenny Muirhead brought a capon.
From The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) by Hogg, James
Then it is hauled up with a steam winch and towed to a whaling station in some bay on the coast, where it is flitched.
From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Hedin, Sven Anders
