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Linch vs Sinch - What's the difference?

linch | sinch |

As nouns the difference between linch and sinch

is that linch is a ledge, a terrace; a right-angled projection; a lynchet while sinch is alternative form of lang=en (simple saddle girth used in Mexico.

As a verb sinch is

to gird with a sinch; to tighten the sinch or girth of (a saddle).

linch

English

Alternative forms

* lynch

Noun

(es)
  • 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.)

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    sinch

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • (simple saddle girth used in Mexico)
  • Verb

  • (transitive, US, Western US) To gird with a sinch; to tighten the sinch or girth of (a saddle).
  • to sinch up a saddle
    (Webster 1913)