lanch meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

lanch

noun

UK, Dialectal A large bed of flints.

[…] difficult to cultivate, on account of the outcrop thereon of a large bed of flints called locally a 'lanch' or 'lanchet.'1871, Thomas Hardy, Desperate Remedies:

verb

Etymology See lance, launch.

Obsolete To pierce, as with a lance; to lance.

And gainſt the General we will lift our ſwords And either lanch his greedie thirſting throat, Or take him priſoner, and his chaine ſhall ſerue For Manackles, till he be ranſom’d home.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

Obsolete To throw, as a lance; to let fly; to launch.