Noun : a flitch of bacon.    From Dictionary.com. 

David was carrying home on his back a flitch of bacon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference

And a flitch of bacon looks best when it's hung! and so does a.    From Wordnik.com.  [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference

A few luxuries were mentioned such as a flitch of bacon, cheese and oil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century] Reference

General Calvet, a flitch of fat bacon in one hand and a watch in the other, grinned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Siege]

The livin's no better, it's flitch every meal; they haven't had pie or cake since we came.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

The flitch gave out last night, and we had nothin 'but corn pone, buttermilk and potatoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

Because Liir was possibly a flitch of Elphaba, I had placed my trust in him all these years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Son of a Witch]

She could reach a flitch of bacon or haul a tub of oil with one sweep of her arm in the shop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between the Acts] Reference

Stronger timbers may require flitch plates of larger areas to achieve appropriate design stresses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 10] Reference

Alfred appreciated this and regretted he had ever mentioned the flitch in his letters to the folks at home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

It consisted of a flea, and a fly, a flitch of bacon, and a magpie, which we thought was a curious combination.    From Wordnik.com.  [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference

But overhead, firmly fixed in the beams of the ceiling, hung many a goodly flitch of bacon, many a plump, well-fed ham.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference

If this show is good, as he says she is, he ought to make enough to buy something to eat besides flitch, corn meal and potatoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

The woman sprang up, and hastily began to arrange some bread and flitch in a tin pail, and to pour her own measure of ale into a bottle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861] Reference

Hundreds have praised the rasher of ham, and thousands the flitch of bacon; it took the stroke of but one pen to make roast pig classical.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm] Reference

Of garbage, or flitch of hoar tunny, thou'rt vain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference

I'll send you down a couple o 'bottles and a flitch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three] Reference

Advises her ladyship to claim the flitch of bacon -- 81 41.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference

Peter; 'Winifred shall have some of thy flitch cooked for dinner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest] Reference

Age, and more about the flitch of bacon, and the like of that; and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Mutual Friend] Reference

On the contrary, it is thirty years since the flitch was claimed, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference

Paal, at Loddin, had given him; also a flitch of bacon from the farmer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maria Schweidler die Bernsteinhexe. English] Reference

Here are butter and eggs, here is tea, here is sugar, and there is a flitch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest] Reference

'If you will do what I ask you to do, I'll give you a whole flitch of bacon.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Tales from the Norse] Reference

Then there is the garden, which the farmers themselves call their "second flitch.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Treatises on Friendship and Old Age] Reference

"Offer the ducks like the Dunmow flitch of bacon to the most happily married couple in Florence.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Belovéd Vagabond] Reference

Bacon and eggs would content me, but I wanted the better part of a flitch of bacon and half a hundred eggs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Thirty-Nine Steps] Reference

He so little expects the demand, that the flitch is only hung in effigie over the hall chimney, carved in wood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference

Two married couples have just been examined at Dunmow, and awarded the 'historic' flitch for conjugal happiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales] Reference

Michaelmas (and Dame always adds a good flitch of bacon -- she is so generous, the Dame!) and a gold piece at Easter.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Border Country] Reference

Do you know, this is the individual manor-house, (91) where married ladies may have a flitch of bacon upon the easiest terms in the world?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference