flitch in English

noun
1
a slab of timber cut from a tree trunk, usually from the outside.
I would take a flitch, lift the head up and go back, and before I started my next cut, I would take the flitch and spin it 90 degrees.
2
the strengthening plate in a flitch beam.
I'm looking for information, books, web sites etc. on specifications for gusset plates and flitch plates when used with wood members.
3
a side of bacon.
The pig was cut so that two sides of pork, flitches , remained; these were cured for bacon.
noun
    side of bacon

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1. 26 Aiming at flitch plate structures, a convenient and practical finite element model is built.

2. The solar photovoltaic heat-accumulating double-action conversion plate (2) is used as the flitch of the automobile's rear window.

3. The Benefits of Boules Made from the finest hardwood logs in the USA, wooden Boules from Horizon provide consistency between each flitch

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5. Adjacent pieces of veneer from a flitch or log are opened like a book and spliced to make up the face with matching occurring at the spliced joints. The fibers of the wood, slanting in opposite directions in the adjacent sheets, create a characteristic light and dark effect when the surface is seen from an angle.