flitch英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

The flank or side of an animal, now almost exclusively a pig when cured and salted; a side of bacon.

— The following morning before Nicholas awoke, Mulvey walked all the way to the village of Letterfrack, returning with a basket of cabbages and a flitch of bacon, two loaves of fresh bread and a plump broiling chicken.
A piece or strip cut off of something else, generally a piece of wood (timber).

— The Measure of a shell or Flitch of Timber. If a piece be taken out of the middle of a round piece of Timber from end to end; there will be left two pieces, which they call Shells or Flitches.

动词 v.

To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips. transitive

— to flitch logs

词形变化

flitches plural flitches present,singular,third-person flitching participle,present flitched participle,past flitched past

词汇关系

衍生词

Dunmow flitch

词源

词源 1

From Middle English flicche, from Old English fliċċe (“side of an animal, flitch”), from Proto-Germanic *flikkiją (“side, flitch”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁ḱ- (“to tear, peel off”). Cognate with Low German flikke, French flèche, Icelandic flikki (“flitch”), Middle Low German vlicke.

词源 2

From Middle English flicche, from Old English fliċċe (“side of an animal, flitch”), from Proto-Germanic *flikkiją (“side, flitch”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁ḱ- (“to tear, peel off”). Cognate with Low German flikke, French flèche, Icelandic flikki (“flitch”), Middle Low German vlicke.