(1):
(n.) One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam.
(2):
(n.) The outside piece of a sawed log; a slab.
(3):
(n.) The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon.
(4):
(n.) To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips; as, to flitch logs; to flitch bacon.