lanch means A large bed of flints. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
Etymology
See lance, launch.
noun
- 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.'”
verb
- 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.”
- To throw, as a lance; to let fly; to launch.