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flitch (FLICH) - n., a side of cured meat, esp. a side of bacon; a longitudinal cut from the trunk of a tree; one of several planks layered to form a beam.
The first is the original meaning -- in Old English it was the side of a hog, in Middle English it was the side of any animal, and in Modern English it has largely returned again to the side of a pig. It's unusual for meaning drift to be back to what it had been. The similarity to flesh is not coincidence, but it's because they share the same PIE root.
---L.
The first is the original meaning -- in Old English it was the side of a hog, in Middle English it was the side of any animal, and in Modern English it has largely returned again to the side of a pig. It's unusual for meaning drift to be back to what it had been. The similarity to flesh is not coincidence, but it's because they share the same PIE root.
---L.
