Lexicographical Neighbors of Linchet
Literary usage of Linchet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Folk-memory by Walter Johnson (1908)
"Sir James AH Murray gives two groups of meanings to the word linchet or linch.
First, it is applied to a strip of land left unploughed between two ploughed ..."
2. Folk-memory by Walter Johnson (1908)
"Since this word has also the meaning of ' a grassy strip ', and since linchet
itself was similarly used by Edward Lisle two centuries ago, the complexity ..."
3. Pennsylvania Archivesby Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania State Library by Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania State Library (1878)
"Cox, Magdalene, and Samuel linchet. • Cox. Margaret, and Stephen Morris. Cox,
Mary, and Artur Reeves. Cox, Mary, and David Guin. Cox, Mary, and John Bruce. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"... and linchet. (3) A haunch of mutton. North. (4) A hamlet. (Инне. (5) A small
step ; a narrow steep bank, or footpath. ¡I',•:</. ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1864)
"... or, as sometimes we have it in a diminutive form, linchet. It is the Anglo-Saxon
Aline, which signifies ' a ridge of land,' and is applied in Wilts, ..."
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