- UK, dialectalA 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.'”
- obsoleteTo 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.”
- obsoleteTo throw, as a lance; to let fly; to launch.
Formslanches(plural) · lanches(present, singular, third-person) · lanching(participle, present) · lanched(participle, past) · lanched(past)