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