lanch

plural lanches

1. UKdialectalA large bed of flints.

   […] difficult to cultivate, on account of the outcrop thereon of a large bed of flints called locally a 'lanch' or 'lanchet.'

   1871, Thomas Hardy, Desperate Remedies

present singular third person lanches · participle present lanching · participle past lanched · past lanched

1. obsoleteTo pierce, as with a lance; to lance.

   And gainſt the General we will lift our ſwords And either lanch his greedie thirſting throat, Or take him priſoner, and his chaine ſhall ſerue For Manackles, till he be ranſom’d home.

   c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii

2. obsoleteTo throw, as a lance; to let fly; to launch.