To turn a bright red or purple colour.
A normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable usually cooked or pickled before eating; Synonym of beet.
The edible part of the root of a beet plant, raw or prepared.
To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips.
The flank or side of an animal, now almost exclusively a pig when cured and salted; a side of bacon.
A piece or strip cut off of something else, generally a piece of wood (timber).