Lexicographical Neighbors of Linchets
Literary usage of Linchets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Folk-memory by Walter Johnson (1908)
"CHAPTER XIII linchets THE reader who has plodded through the two last chapters
is prepared to meet many existing relics of ancient agricultural systems. ..."
2. Folk-memory by Walter Johnson (1908)
"CHAPTER XIII linchets THE reader who has plodded through the two last chapters
is prepared to meet many existing relics of ancient agricultural systems. ..."
3. The Geology of England and Wales: With Notes on the Physical Features of the by Horace Bolingbroke Woodward, Edwin Tulley Newton (1887)
"100), also near Abbotsbury, many linchets occur. On Portland the soil in some
parts is now cultivated in narrow strips ; thus in the space of a quarter of a ..."
4. The Journal of Science by Calcutta Asiatic Society (1866)
"... in which he shows that Mr. Mackintosh had mistaken the terraces (called linchets
or balks) worn out of the chalk and oolite hill-sides for sea-beaches! ..."
5. Rudston: A Sketch of Its History and Antiquities by Peter Royston (1873)
"It appears to me far more probable that these linchets were of military designation."
Mr. Stackhouse says, he was fully confirmed ..."
6. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"pp. 405-6. Lease, Lea, Lay, Ley. ' Grassy ground; meadow-ground; un- ploughed,
and kept for cattle.'—Gloss. linchets. 'Grass partitions in arable fields. ..."
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