Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA ledge, a terrace; a right-angled projection; a lynchet. · An acclivity; a small hill or hillock.
From Middle English linche, link, from Old English hlinċ (“a hill”). Possible doublet of lynch.
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