Linch vs Luncheon - What's the difference?
linch | luncheon |
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:
A formal meal served in the middle of the day.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=2 (lb) A lump of food.
(lb) A portion of food taken at any time except at a regular meal; an informal or light repast.
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*:At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
(dated) To eat luncheon.
* Benjamin Disraeli
As nouns the difference between linch and luncheon
is that linch is a ledge, a terrace; a right-angled projection; a lynchet while luncheon is a formal meal served in the middle of the day.As a verb luncheon is
to eat luncheon.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.)
References
*luncheon
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}
Derived terms
* luncheonetteSee also
* lunch * tiffin * dejeunerVerb
(en verb)- In the meantime, while ladies are luncheoning on chicken pie, or coursing in whirling britskas, performing all the singular ceremonies of a London morning in the heart of the season