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Lanch vs Setoff - What's the difference?

lanch | setoff |

As nouns the difference between lanch and setoff

is that lanch is (uk|dialect) a large bed of flints while setoff is (finance) the situation where a bank or similar organisation repays itself money owed by an accountholder out of his or her account.

As a verb lanch

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

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.

    • setoff

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (finance) The situation where a bank or similar organisation repays itself money owed by an accountholder out of his or her account.