lynchet

/ ˈlɪntʃɪt /

noun

1. a terrace or ridge formed in prehistoric or medieval times by ploughing a hillside

Word History and Origins

Origin of lynchet¹

Old English hlinc ridge

Example Sentences

From near the Point on our side of No Man's Land, a bank or lynchet, topped along its edge with trees, runs southwards for about a mile.

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In four places, the trees about this lynchet grow in clumps or copses, which our men called after the four Evangelists, John, Luke, Mark, and Matthew.

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Below this lynchet is a fairly smooth slope, so tilted that it slopes down to the right towards the valley road, and slopes up to the front towards the enemy line.

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Low down the hill, running parallel with the road, is a little lynchet, topped by a few old hawthorn bushes.

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These features run parallel with our line right down to the road in the valley, and though they are not features of great tactical importance, like the patch of summit above, where the craters are, or like the windmill at Pozières, they were the last things seen by many brave Irish and Englishmen, and cannot be passed lightly by. 37The features are a lane, fifty or sixty yards in front of our front trench, and a remblai or lynchet fifty or sixty yards in front of the lane.

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