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lynchets

lynchets is the plural of lynchet.

Meaning of lynchet

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

Questions about lynchets

What is lynchets the plural of?
Lynchets is the plural of lynchet.

Words near lynchets in the dictionary

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

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