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flitch

  [flich]
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–noun
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.
a. a piece, as a board, forming part of a flitch beam.
b. a thin piece of wood, as a veneer.
c. a bundle of veneers, arranged as cut from the log.
d. a log about to be cut into veneers.
e. cant 2 (def. 8).
–verb (used with object)
4. to cut into flitches.
5. Carpentry. to assemble (boards or the like) into a laminated construction.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME flicche, OE flicca; c. MLG vlicke, ON flikki

cant

2  [kant]
–noun
1. a salient angle.
2. a sudden movement that tilts or overturns a thing.
3. a slanting or tilted position.
4. an oblique line or surface, as one formed by cutting off the corner of a square of cube.
5. an oblique or slanting face of anything.
6. Civil Engineering. bank 1 (def. 6).
7. a sudden pitch or toss.
8. Also called flitch. a partly trimmed log.
–adjective
9. oblique or slanting.
–verb (used with object)
10. to bevel; form an oblique surface upon.
11. to put in an oblique position; tilt; tip.
12. to throw with a sudden jerk.
–verb (used without object)
13. to take or have an inclined position; tilt; turn.
Origin:
1325–75; ME: side, border < AF cant, OF chant < a Rom base *cantu(m) with the related senses “rim, border” and “angle corner,” prob. < Celtic; cf. L cant(h)us iron tire (< Celtic), Welsh cant periphery, rim, felloe; prob. not akin to Gk kanthós corner of the eye; cf. canteen, cantle, canton

Related forms:
cantic, adjective
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flitch   (flĭch)   
n.  

  1. A salted and cured side of bacon.

  2. A longitudinal cut from the trunk of a tree.

  3. One of several planks secured together to form a single beam.


[Middle English flicche, from Old English flicce.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

cant  (1)
"insincere talk," 1709, earlier, slang for "whining of beggars," (1567), from O.N.Fr. canter "to sing, chant" from L. cantare, freq. of canere "to sing" (see chant). Developed after 1680 to mean the jargon of criminals and vagabonds, then applied contemptuously by any sect or school to the phraseology of its rival.

flitch 
"side of bacon," M.E. flicche, from O.E. flicce, related to O.N. flikki, M.L.G. vlicke "piece of flesh." Not connected to flesh. A flitch was presented every year at Dunmow, in Essex, to any married couple who could prove they had lived together without quarreling for a year and a day, a custom mentioned as far back as 1362.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: cant
Pronunciation: 'kant
Function: noun
: an oblique or slanting surface
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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