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Ganch vs Lanch - What's the difference?

ganch | lanch |

As verbs the difference between ganch and lanch

is that ganch is to drop from a high place upon sharp stakes or hooks as a punishment while lanch is to throw, as a lance; to let fly; to launch.

As a noun lanch is

a large bed of flints.

ganch

English

Verb

  • To drop from a high place upon sharp stakes or hooks as a punishment.
    • (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.