flitch
Example Sentences
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The prior, impressed by their devotion, gave them a flitch of bacon.
From BBC
The abbreviation has given rise to a nickname the pilots use for the characteristic, “the flitch trap.”
From New York Times
Americans who fly the 777 say that on their airplanes, in flitch mode, the auto throttle does not work.
From New York Times
Moreover on Christmas Day she had to ask at the abbess’ kitchen for “livery bacon” for the convent, four messes for each lady; a flitch was reckoned to provide ten messes.
From Project Gutenberg
There were now fifteen men in all, and their provisions were reduced to limited rations of bread, one barrel of Dutch cheese, one flitch of bacon, and some small runlets of wine, oil, and vinegar.
From Project Gutenberg
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
