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Swiftly the girl reached well over her head and pulled down a flitch of bacon.

Apparently however, this flitch was merely distributed at the annual society dinner.

It is possible that the flitch of bacon custom was at one time quite widespread.

"Joe Flitch is having a row with his wife.

In that common form it is sometimes referenced as a steel flitch beam.

The metal plate(s) within the beam are known as flitch plates.

B: Slip matched: where the pieces are joined together in the order they come from the flitch, and have the same face kept up.

Because flitch beams are significantly stronger than wood alone, they:

Or come and meet old Joe Flitch - you don't have to see his womenfolk.

The awarding of a flitch at both sites seems to have been an exceedingly rare event.

The original kneeling stones and 15C Flitch chair can still be seen within the church.

Dunmow claims to be the only location to have continued the flitch of bacon custom into the 21st century.

Joseph Flitch was an octogenarian as active as a man twenty years his junior.

"I don't expect any work off you today," Flitch said, when Greybeard showed himself at the little dairy.

A: Book matched: where the veneers are opened from the flitch much like the pages of a book.

Flitch ran for the first time on Lasix, and won for the second time in his last three starts.

These are mounted onto a vertical bed that moves the flitch up and down against the stationary slicing knives.

He'd get molasses, a fresh flitch of bacon, and some cornmeal and coffee.

Little Flitch was very taken with the whole group; he said he'd flick among them in the dark hours, keeping them apprised of what happened.

When a log is cut into veneers, the long section that results is termed a flitch.

That flitch of bacon could be claimed by anyone who had been married for one year and did not repent of their choice.

A large crack was found and repaired with flitch plates and turnbuckles.

She took the flitch of bacon.

'And a tonic water with ice for Mr. Flitch in the library.

A flitch of bacon was kept in the hall (later replaced by a wooden effigy of same).

He could see that the man riding toward him was plumb scared to death, looking this way and that, waiting to see a Red man flitch an arrow at him.