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S vs Linch - What's the difference?

s | linch |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun linch is

a ledge, a terrace; a right-angled projection; a lynchet.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

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    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.)

    Related terms

    * lynchet

    References

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