lych
- a variation of lich.
Example Sentences
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They came to the lych gate, and the crowd jostled itself in its admiration.
From Robin Hood by Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers)
Lych Gate.—The word "lych," derived from the Anglo-Saxon lie, or the German leiche, means a body, especially a dead body, a corpse.
From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by Miller, William James
As he was passing by the Church he noticed an old man, very poorly dressed in an old grey coat with the collar turned up, leaning over the lych gate, in floods of tears.
From Eminent Victorians by Strachey, Giles Lytton
His notes are profusely decorated with a rich array of rood screens, finial crockets, lavatories, aumbries, lecterns, lych sheds, albs, stoups, sedilia, credence tables, pixes, hagioscopes, baudekyns, and squenches.
From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by Burton, John Hill
It had a typical country churchyard, with a large yew tree inside the old lych gate.
From The Carved Cupboard by Le Feuvre, Amy
