lanch
lanch noun: a large bed of flints.
Noun
lanch (plural lanches)
- A large bed of flints.
- […] difficult to cultivate, on account of the outcrop thereon of a large bed of flints
called locally a 'lanch' or 'lanchet.'1871, Thomas Hardy, Desperate Remedies
- […] difficult to cultivate, on account of the outcrop thereon of a large bed of flints
Verb
lanch (third-person singular simple present lanches, present participle lanching, simple past and past participle lanched)
- To pierce, as with a lance; to lance.
- And gainſt the General we will lift our ſwords
And either lanch his greedie thirſting throat,
Or take him priſoner, and his chaine ſhall ſerue
For Manackles, till he be ranſom’d home.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
- And gainſt the General we will lift our ſwords
- To throw, as a lance; to let fly; to launch.
Forms of lanch
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | lanches |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | lanches |
| present participle | lanching |
| past participle | lanched |
| past | lanched |
Origin of lanch
See lance, launch.
Questions about lanch
- What does lanch mean?
- Lanch means a large bed of flints.
- What part of speech is lanch?
- Lanch can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of lanch?
- The plural of lanch is lanches.
Words near lanch in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: lanch (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.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “lanch.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/lanch. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.