flitch

The prior, impressed by their devotion, gave them a flitch of bacon.

The abbreviation has given rise to a nickname the pilots use for the characteristic, “the flitch trap.”

Americans who fly the 777 say that on their airplanes, in flitch mode, the auto throttle does not work.

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.

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.