flitch

  • 121flinch — I. /flɪntʃ / (say flinch) verb (i) 1. to draw back or shrink from what is dangerous, difficult, or unpleasant. 2. to shrink under pain; wince. –verb (t) 3. to draw back or withdraw from. –noun 4. the act of flinching. {? nasalised variant of… …

  • 122flikkja- — *flikkja , *flikkjam germ., stark. Neutrum (a): nhd. Speckseite; ne. flitch of bacon; Rekontruktionsbasis: an., ae., mnd.; Etymologie: s. ing. *plēik̑ , *plīk̑ …

    Germanisches Wörterbuch

  • 123rusala- — *rusala , *rusalaz germ., stark. Maskulinum (a): nhd. Speckseite; ne. flitch of bacon; Rekontruktionsbasis: ae., as.; Etymologie: s. ing. *reus , Verb, reißen, rupfen, Pokorny 8 …

    Germanisches Wörterbuch

  • 124cut — [n1] incision carving, chip, chop, cleavage, cleft, dissection, fissure, furrow, gash, graze, groove, intersection, kerf, laceration, mark, nick, nip, notch, opening, passage, penetration, pierce, prick, rabbet, rent, rip, scarification,… …

    New thesaurus

  • 125Speck — 1. Alter Speck macht fette Suppen. Die Weisheit und die hohen Ansichten der Alten sind noch immer die wahren Tablettes de bouillon unsers Wissens. Wenn die neuen Philosophen ihre Suppen damit nicht gut machten, so blieben sie helles Wasser. 2.… …

    Deutsches Sprichwörter-Lexikon

  • 126fender landing section — A horizontal flange at the top of the flitch plates that provides the seating for the fenders; in most cases, it also includes the mounting threads or spot welds for attaching the fenders …

    Dictionary of automotive terms

  • 127plate — [1] The action of coating a material with some metal. Also called electroplate or anodize. [2] A flat piece of material. [3] Two lead alloy plates in each cell where the positive plate is made of lead peroxide and the negative plate is made of… …

    Dictionary of automotive terms

  • 128bacon — [12] Originally, bacon meant literally ‘meat from a pig’s back’. It comes ultimately from a prehistoric Germanic *bakkon, which was related to *bakam, the source of English back. It reached English via Frankish báko and Old French bacon, and at… …

    Word origins