flitch
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The prior, impressed by their devotion, gave them a flitch of bacon.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2024
Fitzwalter revealed his true identity and gave his land to the priory on the condition a flitch should be awarded to any couple who could claim they were similarly devoted.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2024
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 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
So I declined with what grace I could, and we all parted on the best of terms—I with a fragrant flitch of their home-cured bacon, they with three double handfuls of my California home-dried apricots.
From Down the Yellowstone by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman
Among these, between two bacon flitches, I caught a glimpse of the serving-maid's face as she peered at me, pale and scared, and a queer impulse led me to nod to her--a reassuring little nod.
From The Story of Francis Cludde by Stanley John Weyman
Yes, yes—and the bacon,” said he, elevating his left hand, “six flitches I think there were; they used to be in this very room—” “Ay, sure did ur,” said Mr. Bumpkin. p.
From The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit by Richard Harris
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 Alexandre Chatrian
At first she praised her native village: "it lies upon the hills, and the fields have a soil like flitches of bacon."
From Black Forest Village Stories by Berthold Auerbach
We have occasionally sent a cask or two of pork, some flitches or hams, to market; but as a rule we consume our pigs on the farm.
From Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand by William Delisle Hay
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 Sven Anders Hedin
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