lynchetとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Apparently lynch (“variant of linch”) +‎ -et, the first element derived from 古期英語 hlinc (“a hill”).

名詞

lynchet (複数形 lynchets)

1. (archaeology) A bank of earth that slowly builds up on the lower slope of a ploughed field; a feature of ancient field systems.
   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter 43, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Penguin Classics, published 2003:

     A stretch of a hundred odd acres, in one patch, on the highest ground of the farm, rising above stony lanchets or lynchets - the outcrop of siliceous veins in the chalk formation.

参考

• ridge
• furrow