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lynchet en · NOUN

Etymology

Apparently lynch (“variant of linch”) + -et, the first element derived from Old English hlinc (“a hill”).

Meanings

1. A bank of earth that slowly builds up on the lower slope of a ploughed field; a feature of ancient field systems.
   • A stretch of a hundred odd acres, in one patch, on the highest ground of the farm, rising above stony lanchets or lynchets - the outcrop of siliceous veins in the chalk formation. 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter 43, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Penguin Classics, published 2003, →ISBN:

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Relateds

ridge · furrow