lanch

English

Etymology 1

Noun

lanch (plural lanches)

1. (UK, dialect) A large bed of flints.
   • 1871, Thomas Hardy, Desperate Remedies:

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

Etymology 2

See lance, launch.

Verb

lanch (third-person singular simple present lanches, present participle lanching, simple past and past participle lanched)

1. (obsolete) To pierce, as with a lance; to lance.
   • c. 1587–1588, [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:

     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.

2. (obsolete) To throw, as a lance; to let fly; to launch.