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▪ I. † lench, n.1 Sc. Obs.
[Sc. variant of launch, n.1]
A leap, spring.
1606W. Birnie Kirk-Buriall (1833) 37 That being prevented by death (as he was by the lyons lench) he should neuer see home.
▪ II. lench, n.2 dial. Mining.
(See quots.)
1747Hooson Miner's Dict. L iij b, Lench. These happen in Shafts or Sumps, and may happen by the Vein taking some small leap, or by [etc.]..in which Cases the best or softest part of the Vein flyes more to one Hand, and there stands jutting out a part of the Side within the Shaft, Sump or Gate..this we call a Lench. 1886Cheshire Gloss., Lench, salt-mining term; the middle portion of a seam of rock salt, lying under the Roof Rock; usually from four to six feet thick. 1888Sheffield Gloss., Lench or Lencheon, a shelf of rock. A Derbyshire word.
▪ III. † lench, v. Obs.
intr.
c1325Old Age in Rel. Ant. II. 211, I lench, I len, on lyme I lasse. 1847Halliwell, Lench, to stoop in walking. Linc. [1900‘Not known to our correspondents’ (Eng. Dial. Dict.).] |