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Hanch vs Lanch - What's the difference?

hanch | lanch |

As nouns the difference between hanch and lanch

is that hanch is or hanch can be while lanch is (uk|dialect) a large bed of flints.

As a verb lanch is

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

hanch

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(es)

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (es)

    • References

    * 1886 , A haunch. The Squire zend 'em a beautiful hanch o' venison.'' — Frederick Thomas Elworthy, ''The West Somerset Word-Book. A Glossary of Dialectical and Archaic Words and Phrases used in the West of Somerset and East Devon.

    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.