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lynchet

lynchet noun: a bank of earth that slowly builds up on the lower slope of a ploughed field; a feature of ancient field systems.

Noun

lynchet (plural lynchets)

  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

Forms of lynchet

plurallynchets
alternative formlandshard
alternative formlinchet
alternative formlanchet

Origin of lynchet

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

Questions about lynchet

What does lynchet mean?
Lynchet means a bank of earth that slowly builds up on the lower slope of a ploughed field; a feature of ancient field systems.
What part of speech is lynchet?
Lynchet is a noun.
What is the plural of lynchet?
The plural of lynchet is lynchets.

Words near lynchet in the dictionary

  1. lynchees
  2. lyncher
  3. lynchers
  4. lynches
  5. Lynchesque
  6. lynchet
  7. lynchets
  8. Lynchian
  9. lynchin'
  10. lynching
  11. lynchings

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