Linch vs Lynch - What's the difference?
linch | lynch |
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:
(pejorative) To execute (somebody) without a proper legal trial or procedure, especially by hanging.
Linch is a alternative form of lynch.
As nouns the difference between lynch and linch
is that lynch is alternative form of lang=en while linch is a ledge, a terrace; a right-angled projection; a lynchet.As a verb lynch
is to execute (somebody) without a proper legal trial or procedure, especially by hanging.As a proper noun Lynch
is {{surname}.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.)