lynchet

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noun

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

OriginOld English hlinc →
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Meanings

nounlynchet (plural lynchets)

plural lynchets · alternative landshard · alternative linchet · alternative lanchet

  1. archaeologyA 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

Origin

  1. Old Englishhlinc“a hill”
  2. Englishlynchet

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

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APA

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MLA

“lynchet.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lynchet. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lynchet,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lynchet.

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