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Lynches vs Lanches - What's the difference?

lynches | lanches |

As verbs the difference between lynches and lanches

is that lynches is third-person singular of lynch while lanches is third-person singular of lanch.

lynches

English

Verb

(head)
  • (lynch)

    • lynch

    English

    (wikipedia lynch)

    Etymology 1

    First attested , from (Lynch law) that appeared in .

    Verb

    (es)
  • (pejorative) To execute (somebody) without a proper legal trial or procedure, especially by hanging.
    • Synonyms
    * (execute without a proper legal trial) string up
    Derived terms
    * lynching * lynch mob
    Related terms
    * kangaroo court * show trial

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (es)
    • English eponyms ----

    lanches

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (lanch)
    • ----

    lanch

    English

    Noun

  • (UK, dialect) A large bed of flints.
  • * 1871 (Thomas Hardy) "Desperate Remedies"
    • ...difficult to cultivate, on account of the outcrop thereon of a large bed of flints
    called locally a ' lanch ' or 'lanchet.'

    Verb

    (es)
  • (obsolete) To throw, as a lance; to let fly; to launch.