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canches

canches is the plural of canch.

canches is the plural of canche.

Meaning of canch

Noun

canch (plural canches)

  1. (historical) An upper or lower portion of stone that is removed to form a gradient between workings.
    • An upcast fault is when the seam is thrown up; to counteract this a "canch" of top stone must be taken down outbye over from the fault, and a "canch" of bottom stone taken up inbye over from the fault, then level up to the bottom of your "canch" at the foreside of the hitch outbye over until you...1879, William Bailes, Student's Guide to the Principles of Coal & Metal Mining, page 17

Proper noun capitalized: Canches

Canches

  1. (plural) plural of Canche

Questions about canches

What is canches the plural of?
Canches is the plural of canch.
What part of speech is canches?
Canches is a proper noun.

Words near canches in the dictionary

  1. cancha
  2. canchalagua
  3. canchalaguas
  4. canchas
  5. canche
  6. canches
  7. Canchola
  8. Cancholas
  9. Cancilla
  10. Cancillas
  11. Cancino

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Adapted from Wiktionary: canches (page history and authors); Canches (page history and authors); canch (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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