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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

It takes a longer time for a thick than for a thin flitch; it takes longer in dry, than in damp weather; it takes longer in a dry than in a damp place.

From Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend by William Cobbett

The flitches should also be transposed, the bottom ones at the top and the top ones at the bottom.

From Home Pork Making by A. W. Fulton

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

Hams and flitches of bacon were smoked in the wide chimney.

From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Horace Annesley Vachell

They climbed up through cobwebs, ham, flitches of smoked beef, and darkness, and the reek of wood-smoke, until they came, high up, to a store-room in the slope of a mansard roof.

From Privy Seal His Last Venture by Ford Madox Ford

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

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