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Definition of Lynchets
1. lynchet [n] - See also: lynchet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lynchets
Literary usage of Lynchets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1883)
"hilly districts, and known as " lynches " or "lynchets." When a hill-side, ...
lynchets ..."
2. The Village Community: With Special References to the Origin and Form of Its by George Laurence Gomme (1896)
"In the latter county Mr. Scrope has noted numerous terraces, locally known as
balks or lynchets, which contour round the projecting headlands and far up ..."
3. Reynard the Fox by John Masefield (1920)
"A man working nearby was able to give the line and Will, lifting beyond the
lynchets, at once hit him off, and the hounds resumed their rush. ..."
4. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1920)
"See been made within it. The dolmen Archaeologia, xxxv, p. 244. The late Mr. W.
stands upon and among old lynchets, Clarke of ..."
5. The Old Front Line by John Masefield (1917)
"It is said, that these remblais or lynchets, which may be seen in English chalk
countries, as in the Dunstable Downs, in the Chiltern Hills, ..."
6. The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine by Edward Hungerford Goddard, Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (1878)
"They are sometimes called lynchets, or lynches, from, I believe, ... So much has
been written controversially about these lynchets that it would take a very ..."
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