Noun

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A ledge, a terrace; a right-angled projection; a lynchet.

* 1910 , An introduction to the study of local history and antiquities , page 387:

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,

* Peter James, ?Nick Thorpe, Ancient Mysteries (ISBN 0307414604), page 289:

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.)

Noun

(es)

(archaic) A corpse or dead body.

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(fantasy, roleplay) A reanimated corpse or undead being.

*1974 , (Karl Edward Wagner), ‘Sticks’:

*:It was a lich ’s face – desiccated flesh tight over its skull.