lynchet

English

Alternative forms

• landshard, linchet, lanchet

Etymology

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

Noun

lynchet (plural lynchets)

1. (archaeology) A bank of earth that slowly builds up on the lower slope of a ploughed field; a feature of ancient field systems.
   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter 43, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Penguin Classics, published 2003, →ISBN:

     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.

See also

• ridge
• furrow

German

Pronunciation

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Verb

lynchet

1. second-person plural subjunctive I of lynchen