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Webster 1913 Edition

Lanch

Lanch

(lȧnch)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Lanched
(lȧncht)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Lanching
. See
Launch
,
Lance
.]
To throw, as a lance; to let fly; to launch.
See Whose arm can
lanch
the surer bolt.
Dryden & Lee.

Webster 1828 Edition

Lanch

L'ANCH

,
Verb.
T.
[from lance.]
1.
To throw, as a lance; to dart; to let fly.
See whose arm can lanch the surer bolt.
2.
To move, or cause to slide from the land into the water; as, to lanch a ship.

L'ANCH

,
Verb.
I.
To dart or fly off; to push off; as, to lanch into the wide world; to lanch into a wide field of discussion.

L'ANCH

, n.
1.
The sliding or movement of a ship from the land into the water, on ways prepared for the purpose.
2.
A kind of boat, longer, lower, and more flat-bottomed than a long boat.

Definition 2024

lanch

lanch

English

Noun

lanch ‎(plural lanches)

  1. (Britain, dialect) A large bed of flints.
    • 1871 Thomas Hardy "Desperate Remedies"
      ...difficult to cultivate, on account of the outcrop thereon of a large bed of flints
      called locally a ' lanch ' or 'lanchet.'

Verb

lanch ‎(third-person singular simple present lanches, present participle lanching, simple past and past participle lanched)

  1. (obsolete) To throw, as a lance; to let fly; to launch.

Etymology

See lance, launch.

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