lynchet
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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A bank of earth that slowly builds up on the lower slope of a ploughed field; a feature of ancient field systems.
— 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.
词源
Apparently lynch (“variant of linch”) + -et, the first element derived from Old English hlinc (“a hill”).
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