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landshard
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 comm...
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lensher
† lensher Obs. App. early Sc. f. landshard.1672 Sc. Acts Chas. II (1820) VIII. 139/2 Lenshers, aqueducts..water workes, and others vsefull and necessar for winning and vpholding of the saids coalls & coallhewghs.
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lynchet
lynchet (ˈlɪnʃɪt) Forms: 7– lynchet(t, 9 linchard, 8–9 linchet. [f. linch n.2; perh. by confusion with lanchet, landshard.] 1. A strip of green land between two pieces of ploughed land.1674 Ray S. & E.C. Words 71 A Lynchett, a green balk to divide lands. a 1722 Lisle Husb. (1752) 67 There happened i...
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