Lanch

Noun

1. (UK, 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 flintscalled locally a ' lanch ' or 'lanchet.'

Origin

See lance, launch

Full definition of lanch

Verb

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