English Explanatory Dictionary

Lychpit

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A modern suburb in Old Basing and Lychpit parish, Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU6653).

Word forms

Lychpit

Etymology

From lych + pit, lych being from Old English lic (“corpse”), so it probably refers to a burial pit.

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on L Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary