lynchetn.

Brit.

/ˈlɪn(t)ʃᵻt/, U.S.

/ˈlɪn(t)ʃᵻt/

Forms: 1600s– lynchet(t, 1800s linchard, 1700s–1800s linchet.

Etymology: < linch n.²; perhaps by confusion with lanchet , landshard n.

1. A strip of green land between two pieces of ploughed land.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > broken land > arable or ploughed land > land missed in ploughing

balkc1000

lynchet1674

rind1730

landshard1811

1674 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 71 A Lynchett, a green balk to divide lands.

a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1752) 67 There happened in this ground to be a linchet ploughed up in the winter.

1863 W. Barnes Gram. & Gloss. Dorset Dial. Linchet or Linch, Lynchet or Lynch,..the strip of green ground between two ploughed ledges.

1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. Linch, Linchet,..Linchard, &c.

a. A slope or terrace along the face of a chalk down. (Cf. linch n.²). Also attributive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > ledge or terrace > [noun]

shelvea1701

ledge1732

terrace1753

bench1791

lynchet1797

shelf1807

benching1809

offset1856

cultivation terrace1863

terracing1863

mantelshelf1897

cultivation-bank1913

mantelpiece1920

terracette1922

berm1931

1797 W. G. Maton Observ. Western Counties Eng. II. 186 Those singular natural terraces..the linches or linchets, as they are called.

1844 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 5 i. 169 The parings from road-sides, old banks, and linchets, ant~hills, &c., are burnt.

1883 T. Hardy Three Strangers in Longman's Mag. Mar. 585 The ‘lynchets’, or flint slopes, which belted the escarpment at intervals of a dozen yards.

1898 T. Hardy Wessex Poems 135 That Highway the Icen, Which trails its pale riband down Wessex O'er lynchet and lea.

1917 J. Masefield Old Front Line 42 The line of the lynchet-top merges into the slope behind it.

b. Archaeology. A cultivation terrace. Also attributive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > cultivated land > terrace

lynchet1796

cultivation terrace1863

cultivation-bank1913

strip-lynchet1929

1796 Gentleman's Mag. 66 822/1 On the declivities of the elevated and chalky tracts of Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and other counties, there very frequently occurs a beautiful assemblage of terraces, mostly horizontal, and rising in a continued series like the steps of Egyptian pyramids... These, which are commonly arable,..are popularly called lynchets... They are generally regarded in the neighbourhood as the offspring of human exertion in remote ages, to facilitate and extend the dominion of the plough.

1869 D. Mackintosh Scenery Eng. & Wales iv. ii. 89 Many terraces are still cultivated but..there is..a general desire to plough down the ‘lynchets’ (as they are locally called), and..formerly their number was much greater than at present.

1908 A. H. Allcroft Earthwork of Eng. ii. 40 All but the very summits of the highest Downs were early ploughed, and the lynchets must in many cases be of mediæval, if not of Saxon date.

1953 R. J. C. Atkinson Field Archaeol. (ed. 2) 19 When lynchets (cultivation terraces) are photographed facing a setting sun, the sloping faces of the terraces..will reflect more light than the surrounding ground.

1954 M. Beresford Lost Villages Eng. ix. 297 On the valley sides are lynchet-like terraces which look as if they mark where the ploughs moved.

1968 J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts 13 Celtic farmers increased the areas of their arable land by excavating some of the hillsides and making terraces or lynchets.

Derivatives

ˈlynchetted adj. of land: cultivated in this way.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > plot of cultivated land

lynchetted1928

1928 Antiquity June 171 To the south and west of the lynchetted area lies what is known as ‘The Druid's Circle’.

1933 Antiquity 7 494 The..rarity in Cumbria of the lynchetted form of settlement.

1954 S. Piggott Neolithic Cultures Brit. Isles ii. 33 Certain types of settlement, characterized by huts within irregular lynchetted areas, may be Neolithic in date.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	lynchet
释义	lynchetn. Brit. /ˈlɪn(t)ʃᵻt/, U.S. /ˈlɪn(t)ʃᵻt/ Forms: 1600s– lynchet(t, 1800s linchard, 1700s–1800s linchet. Etymology: < linch n.²; perhaps by confusion with lanchet , landshard n. 1. A strip of green land between two pieces of ploughed land. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > broken land > arable or ploughed land > land missed in ploughing balkc1000 lynchet1674 rind1730 landshard1811 1674 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 71 A Lynchett, a green balk to divide lands. a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1752) 67 There happened in this ground to be a linchet ploughed up in the winter. 1863 W. Barnes Gram. & Gloss. Dorset Dial. Linchet or Linch, Lynchet or Lynch,..the strip of green ground between two ploughed ledges. 1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. Linch, Linchet,..Linchard, &c. 2. a. A slope or terrace along the face of a chalk down. (Cf. linch n.²). Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > ledge or terrace > [noun] shelvea1701 ledge1732 terrace1753 bench1791 lynchet1797 shelf1807 benching1809 offset1856 cultivation terrace1863 terracing1863 mantelshelf1897 cultivation-bank1913 mantelpiece1920 terracette1922 berm1931 1797 W. G. Maton Observ. Western Counties Eng. II. 186 Those singular natural terraces..the linches or linchets, as they are called. 1844 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 5 i. 169 The parings from road-sides, old banks, and linchets, ant~hills, &c., are burnt. 1883 T. Hardy Three Strangers in Longman's Mag. Mar. 585 The ‘lynchets’, or flint slopes, which belted the escarpment at intervals of a dozen yards. 1898 T. Hardy Wessex Poems 135 That Highway the Icen, Which trails its pale riband down Wessex O'er lynchet and lea. 1917 J. Masefield Old Front Line 42 The line of the lynchet-top merges into the slope behind it. b. Archaeology. A cultivation terrace. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > cultivated land > terrace lynchet1796 cultivation terrace1863 cultivation-bank1913 strip-lynchet1929 1796 Gentleman's Mag. 66 822/1 On the declivities of the elevated and chalky tracts of Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and other counties, there very frequently occurs a beautiful assemblage of terraces, mostly horizontal, and rising in a continued series like the steps of Egyptian pyramids... These, which are commonly arable,..are popularly called lynchets... They are generally regarded in the neighbourhood as the offspring of human exertion in remote ages, to facilitate and extend the dominion of the plough. 1869 D. Mackintosh Scenery Eng. & Wales iv. ii. 89 Many terraces are still cultivated but..there is..a general desire to plough down the ‘lynchets’ (as they are locally called), and..formerly their number was much greater than at present. 1908 A. H. Allcroft Earthwork of Eng. ii. 40 All but the very summits of the highest Downs were early ploughed, and the lynchets must in many cases be of mediæval, if not of Saxon date. 1953 R. J. C. Atkinson Field Archaeol. (ed. 2) 19 When lynchets (cultivation terraces) are photographed facing a setting sun, the sloping faces of the terraces..will reflect more light than the surrounding ground. 1954 M. Beresford Lost Villages Eng. ix. 297 On the valley sides are lynchet-like terraces which look as if they mark where the ploughs moved. 1968 J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts 13 Celtic farmers increased the areas of their arable land by excavating some of the hillsides and making terraces or lynchets. Derivatives ˈlynchetted adj. of land: cultivated in this way. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > plot of cultivated land lynchetted1928 1928 Antiquity June 171 To the south and west of the lynchetted area lies what is known as ‘The Druid's Circle’. 1933 Antiquity 7 494 The..rarity in Cumbria of the lynchetted form of settlement. 1954 S. Piggott Neolithic Cultures Brit. Isles ii. 33 Certain types of settlement, characterized by huts within irregular lynchetted areas, may be Neolithic in date. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1674
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