Lynched vs Lanched - What's the difference?
lynched | lanched |
(lynch)
(pejorative) To execute (somebody) without a proper legal trial or procedure, especially by hanging.
(lanch)
(UK, dialect) A large bed of flints.
* 1871 (Thomas Hardy) "Desperate Remedies"
(obsolete) To throw, as a lance; to let fly; to launch.
As verbs the difference between lynched and lanched
is that lynched is (lynch) while lanched is (lanch).lynched
English
Verb
(head)lynch
English
(wikipedia lynch)Etymology 1
First attested , from (Lynch law) that appeared in .Verb
(es)Synonyms
* (execute without a proper legal trial) string upDerived terms
* lynching * lynch mobEtymology 2
lanched
English
Verb
(head)lanch
English
Noun
- ...difficult to cultivate, on account of the outcrop thereon of a large bed of flints
- called locally a ' lanch ' or 'lanchet.'