flitch vs scissor

flitch

verb
  • To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips. 

noun
  • 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). 

scissor

verb
  • To cut using, or as if using, scissors. 

  • To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other. 

  • To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other. 

  • To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs. 

  • To excise or expunge something from a text. 

noun
  • One blade on a pair of scissors. 

  • Scissors. 

  • Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as scissor kick, scissor hold (wrestling), scissor jack. 

How often have the words flitch and scissor occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )