Lanch vs Linch - What's the difference?
lanch | linch |
(UK, dialect) A large bed of flints.
* 1871 (Thomas Hardy) "Desperate Remedies"
(obsolete) To throw, as a lance; to let fly; to launch.
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:
As nouns the difference between lanch and linch
is that lanch is (uk|dialect) a large bed of flints while linch is a ledge, a terrace; a right-angled projection; a lynchet.As a verb lanch
is (obsolete) to throw, as a lance; to let fly; to launch.lanch
English
Noun
- ...difficult to cultivate, on account of the outcrop thereon of a large bed of flints
- called locally a ' lanch ' or 'lanchet.'
Verb
(es)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.)
