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Lanch vs Latch - What's the difference?

lanch | latch |

In obsolete terms the difference between lanch and latch

is that lanch is to throw, as a lance; to let fly; to launch while latch is to smear; to anoint.

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.

    • latch

    English

    (wikipedia latch)

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) .

    Noun

    (es)
  • A fastening for a door that has a bar that fits into a notch or slot, and is lifted by a lever or string from either side.
  • * 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 4
    • The cleverly constructed latch which Clayton had made for the door had sprung as Kerchak passed out; nor could the apes find means of ingress through the heavily barred windows.
  • A flip-flop electronic circuit
  • (obsolete) A latching.
  • (obsolete) A crossbow.
  • (obsolete) That which fastens or holds; a lace; a snare.
    • Derived terms
    * on the latch

    Verb

    (es)
  • To close or lock as if with a latch
  • To catch; lay hold of
  • :* Where hearing should not latch them. — Shakespeare, MacBeth , Act IV
    • Derived terms
    * latch on * latch on to * latch onto

    Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) .

    Verb

    (es)
  • (obsolete) To smear; to anoint.
    • (Shakespeare)