linch means A ledge, a terrace; a right-angled projection; a lynchet. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 86 out of 100.
linch is pronounced /lɪnt͡ʃ/.
Etymology
From Middle English linche, link, from Old English hlinċ (“a hill”). Possible doublet of lynch.
noun
- A ledge, a terrace; a right-angled projection; a lynchet.“Within ten years linches were formed; rain washed down the mould, some accident arrested it at a certain line, and a terrace was the result. Certainly the tendency is for the upper part of such a field to be denuded of mould, to be worked "to the bone," i.e. to the bare chalk or stone. But the first makers of linches had no choice. They had to farm on slopes or not at all, […]”
- An acclivity; a small hill or hillock.“I lay down on a linch to lithe my bones.”