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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
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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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