2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage 2003, p. 95:
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.
puhekieltä To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips.