"flitch" In Word Games

1. the side of a hog (or, formerly, some other animal) salted and cured: a flitch of bacon.
2. a steak cut from a halibut.
3. Carpentry
4. a piece, as a board, forming part of a flitch beam.
5. a thin piece of wood, as a veneer.
6. a bundle of veneers, arranged as cut from the log.
7. a log about to be cut into veneers.
8. cant2 (def. 8).
9. to cut into flitches.
10. Carpentry
11. to assemble (boards or the like) into a laminated construction.

"flitch" synonyms:

• side-of-bacon,
• cut,
• slash,
• gash,
• nick,
• slit,
• incise,
• lacerate,
• penetrate,
• pierce,
• score,
• slice,
• wound,
• notch,
• scratch,
• graze,
• injure,
• lance,
• rip