flitch
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The prior, impressed by their devotion, gave them a flitch of bacon.
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
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
Almost three months of the wizened pay of the three-day week had been uncomfortable enough, but the strike that followed had nearly emptied the flour sack and gobbled up the last flitch of bacon.
From Time Magazine Archive
A few luxuries were mentioned such as a flitch of bacon, cheese and oil.
From Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century by Annie Lash Jester
Let’s down wi’ them flitches o’ the shark-meat: for it’s them that’s driftin’ us along.
From The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Mayne Reid
The others counted my mother’s hams and flitches of bacon, and the strings of onions throwing flickering shadows in the lamplight.
From Seven Frozen Sailors by George Manville Fenn
When two flitches are to be cured, divide the hog, cut off the hams, and take out the chine.
From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Mary Eaton
A brooding odour of disease filled the gaunt, wide-raftered room, infected the shadowy hanging flitches, and grew stronger and more sickly towards the staircase at the farther end.
From Sophia A Romance by Stanley John Weyman
For two tolerable flitches, dry a stone of salt over the fire, till it is scalding hot.
From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Mary Eaton
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
