linches

Noun

linch (plural linches)

1. A ledge, a terrace; a right-angled projection; a lynchet.
   • 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...1910, An introduction to the study of local history and antiquities, page 387
2. (obsolete, rare, regional) An acclivity; a small hill or hillock.
   • I lay down on a linch to lithe my bones.15th century, anonymous, Mum and the Sothsegger (15th c.)