English Explanatory Dictionary

lynchet

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

lynchet lynchets landshard linchet lanchet

Etymology

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

Related words

ridge furrow
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