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Definition of Lynchet

1. a boundary [n -S] - See also: boundary

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lynchet

Literary usage of Lynchet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Scenery of England and the Causes to which it is Due by John Lubbock (1902)
"Scrope mentions a case in which such a lynchet was formed in his own time. ... Formation of a lynchet. which he has now done for about ten years past, ..."

2. The Scenery of England and the Causes to which it is Due by John Lubbock (1902)
"give rise to a balk or lynchet, perhaps several feet in height, ... Scrope mentions a case in which such a lynchet was formed in his own time. ..."

3. The Old Front Line by John Masefield (1917)
"Then there is the lynchet or rem- blai, like a steep cliff, from three to ... Below this lynchet is a fairly smooth slope, so tilted that it slopes down to ..."

4. The Antiquarian Magazine & Bibliographer by Edward Walford (1885)
"Then why was not the word " lynchet" used ? There is no other apparent answer, than that any one, who should see the rampart, would immediately see that it ..."

5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"lynchet, a certain line of green-sword or bounds, dividing arable land in ... Mere, the same as lynchet. [Mesh. See Mash..] A Met, a strike or bushel. ..."

6. The philology of the English tongue by John Earle (1880)
"lynchet is a local word of Saxon origin which has taken this French facing. In the neighbourhood of Winchester and elsewhere along the chalk hills, ..."

7. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1889)
"lynchet, according to Ashe, is a local word, and means " The border of green which terminates ploughed lands."—The following day was devoted to an excursion ..."

8. Reprinted Glossaries by Walter William Skeat (1879)
"lynchet, a certain line of green-sword or bounds, dividing arable land in common fields. Mads, a disease in sheep. A Hash, or Mesh, ground-corn or such like ..."

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