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Definition of Flitches
1. flitch [v] - See also: flitch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flitches
Literary usage of Flitches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes on Building Construction: Arranged to Meet the Requirements of the by Henry Fidler, Great Britain Dept. of Science and Art (1891)
"A writer in the Building News has shown that, when the depth and length of the
iron plate is the same as that of the flitches, its thickness, in order that ..."
2. Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences: Being Record of the Progress edited by William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington (1846)
"Five of such double flitches being brought together round a core, as at fig.
3, they form the mast required; and the effect of thus bringing together five ..."
3. Quantities: A Text-book for Surveyors, in Tabulated Form by Banister Fletcher, Herbert Phillips Fletcher (1888)
"•CUSTOMARY COMMENCEMENT HOW BILLED, HOW MEASURED — WROUGHT IRON CHIMNEY BARS—flitches
RIVETED GIRDER EXAMPLE OF T AND CROSS IRON CIRCULAR COLUMNS HOLLOW ..."
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