flitch

flitch is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam.
  2. 2.The outside piece of a sawed log; a slab. [Eng.]

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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