flitch

Laura Cohen, acted as bearer of the flitch, a role that only men have done previously.

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 Jester, Annie Lash

From the rafters hang flitches of bacon, hams, bunches of onions, herbs, etc.

From Contemporary One-Act Plays by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

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 Fenn, George Manville

Get the boneless, in 5 to 8 pound flitches.

From Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam

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 Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849

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