landshard dial.
(ˈlæn(d)ʃəd)
Also landsherd, landchet, lanchet, lanshet, langet.
[f. land n.1 + shard n. The forms show contamination with the synonymous lynchet.]
= lynchet.
| 1813 T. Davis Agric. Wilts App. 259 Linch, Linchet, or Landshard, the mere green-sward dividing two pieces of arable in a common-field called in Hants, a lay bank. 1847 Halliwell, Langet, a strip of ground. West. 1886 W. Somerset Gloss., Landsherd, a ridge or strip of land left unploughed or untilled. 1891 T. Hardy Tess (1900) 104/2 A stretch of a hundred odd acres..rising above stony lanchets or lynchets. 1893 H. J. Moule Old Dorset 81 The terraces called landchets or linchets. |