lynchet

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English

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Etymology

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

Noun

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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.

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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lynchet

  1. second-person plural subjunctive I of lynchen