the side of a hog (or, formerly, some other animal) salted and cured

a flitch of bacon.

a steak cut from a halibut.

Carpentry .

a piece, as a board, forming part of a flitch beam.

a thin piece of wood, as a veneer.

a bundle of veneers, arranged as cut from the log.

a log about to be cut into veneers.

cant 2 ( def. 8 ) .

to cut into flitches.

Carpentry . to assemble (boards or the like) into a laminated construction.