Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See linchet.

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  • noun archaeology a bank of earth that slowly builds up on the lower slope of a ploughed field; a feature of ancient field systems

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Examples

  • This type of raised road or track can be seen in one or two parts of the battlefield (just above Hamel and near Pozières for instance), but the hollow or sunken road and the steep remblai or lynchet are everywhere.

    The Old Front Line John Masefield 1922

  • Looking straight to the front from the Sunken Road our men saw no sudden dip down at the lynchet, but a continuous grassy field, at first flat, then slowly rising towards the enemy parapet.

    The Old Front Line John Masefield 1922

  • The line of these great works ran (as so many of his important lines have run) at the foot of a steep bank or lynchet, so that at a little distance the parapet of the work merged into the bank behind it and was almost invisible.

    The Old Front Line John Masefield 1922

  • 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.

    The Old Front Line John Masefield 1922

  • To reach it our men had to run across the flat from the Sunken Road, slide down the bank of the lynchet, and then run up the glacis to the parapet.

    The Old Front Line John Masefield 1922

  • 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

    The Old Front Line John Masefield 1922

  • Outside Gommecourt, a slight lynchet near the enemy line was prepared for at least a dozen such posts invisible from any part of our line and not easily to be picked out by photograph, and so placed as to sweep at least a mile of No

    The Old Front Line John Masefield 1922

  • The line of the lynchet-top merges into the slope behind it, so that it is not seen.

    The Old Front Line John Masefield 1922

  • Low down the hill, running parallel with the road, is a little lynchet, topped by a few old hawthorn bushes.

    The Old Front Line John Masefield 1922

  • The features are a lane, fifty or sixty yards in front of our front trench, and a remblai or lynchet fifty or sixty yards in front of the lane.

    The Old Front Line John Masefield 1922

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