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Flanch vs Lanch - What's the difference?

flanch | lanch |

As nouns the difference between flanch and lanch

is that flanch is a flange while lanch is a large bed of flints.

As a verb lanch is

to throw, as a lance; to let fly; to launch.

flanch

English

Noun

(es)
  • A flange.
  • (heraldiccharge) A bearing consisting of a circle segment encroaching on the field from the side, and always occurring in pairs.
    • (Webster 1913)

    lanch

    English

    Noun

  • (UK, dialect) A large bed of flints.
  • * 1871 (Thomas Hardy) "Desperate Remedies"
    • ...difficult to cultivate, on account of the outcrop thereon of a large bed of flints
    called locally a ' lanch ' or 'lanchet.'

    Verb

    (es)
  • (obsolete) To throw, as a lance; to let fly; to launch.