Reinforced with a flitch plate or metal plate (in carpentry); composed of flitches or slabs.
From 'flitch' with adjectival '-ed' suffix, used in architectural and carpentry terminology to describe structures reinforced with metal plates or wooden slabs.
Medieval and Tudor builders developed the flitch plate technique to repair sagging wooden beams without replacing them—it's an ingenious precursor to modern reinforcement methods and shows how old timber-frame buildings got their impressive strength.
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