lynchet

British  

/ ˈlɪntʃɪt /

noun

1. a terrace or ridge formed in prehistoric or medieval times by ploughing a hillside

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Etymology

Origin of lynchet

Old English hlinc ridge

Example Sentences

From this lynchet, looking down the valley into the Y Ravine, the enemy position is saddle-shaped, low in the middle, where the Y Ravine 47narrows, and rising to right and left to a good height.

From The Old Front Line by Masefield, John

In four places, the trees about this lynchet grow in clumps or copses, which our men called after the four Evangelists, John, Luke, Mark, and Matthew.

From The Old Front Line by Masefield, John

Below this lynchet is a fairly smooth slope, so tilted that it slopes down to the right towards the valley road, and slopes up to the front towards the enemy line.

From The Old Front Line by Masefield, John

From near the Point on our side of No Man's Land, a bank or lynchet, topped along its edge with trees, runs southwards for about a mile.

From The Old Front Line by Masefield, John

Cicely" is an example which repays attention:— "And still sadly onward I followed, That Highway the Icen Which trails its pale riband down Wessex O'er lynchet and lea.

From Some Diversions of a Man of Letters by Gosse, Edmund