Linch vs Cotter - What's the difference?
linch | cotter |
A ledge, a terrace; a right-angled projection; a lynchet.
* 1910 , An introduction to the study of local history and antiquities , page 387:
* Peter James, ?Nick Thorpe, Ancient Mysteries (ISBN 0307414604), page 289:
(mechanical engineering) A pin or wedge inserted through a slot to hold machine parts together.
(informal) a cotter pin.
As nouns the difference between linch and cotter
is that linch is a ledge, a terrace; a right-angled projection; a lynchet while cotter is (mechanical engineering) a pin or wedge inserted through a slot to hold machine parts together or cotter can be a peasant who performed labour in exchange for the right to live in a cottage.As a verb cotter is
to fasten with a cotter.linch
English
Alternative forms
* lynchNoun
(es)- Within ten years linches' were formed; rain washed down the mould, some accident arrested it at a certain line, and a terrace was the result. Certainly the tendency is for the upper part of such a field to be denuded of mould, to be worked "to the bone," i.e. to the bare chalk or stone. But the first makers of ' linches had no choice. They had to farm on slopes or not at all,
- Indeed, a map of 1844 marks some of the lower terraces on the southern and eastern flanks of the hill as "Tor Linches," a linch or lynchet being a terrace of land wide enough to plot. (Some linches were deliberately Fashioned; others came about as the land flattened into platforms through being worked.)
