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Flitch vs Fletch - What's the difference?

flitch | fletch |

As nouns the difference between flitch and fletch

is that flitch is the side of an animal, now only a pig when cured and salted; a side of bacon while fletch is (archery) the vane toward the back of an arrow, used to stabilise the arrow during flight.

As a verb fletch is

to feather, as an arrow.

flitch

English

Noun

(es)
  • The side of an animal, now only a pig when cured and salted; a side of bacon.
  • *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.

    • fletch

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • (archery) The vane toward the back of an arrow, used to stabilise the arrow during flight.
  • (fisheries) A large boneless fillet of halibut, swordfish or tuna.

    • Verb

    (es)
  • To feather, as an arrow.

    • Derived terms

    * fletcher * fletching

    Related terms

    * fledge