"lanch" meaning in English

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      "form": "lanches",
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        "plural"
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    }
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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1871, Thomas Hardy, Desperate Remedies:",
          "text": "[…] difficult to cultivate, on account of the outcrop thereon of a large bed of flints\ncalled locally a 'lanch' or 'lanchet.'",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A large bed of flints."
      ],
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          "bed",
          "bed"
        ],
        [
          "flint",
          "flint"
        ]
      ],
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        "(UK, dialect) A large bed of flints."
      ],
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        "UK",
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    }
  ],
  "word": "lanch"
}

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  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_text": "See lance, launch.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lanches",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lanching",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lanched",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lanched",
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        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:",
          "text": "And gainſt the General we will lift our ſwords\nAnd either lanch his greedie thirſting throat,\nOr take him priſoner, and his chaine ſhall ſerue\nFor Manackles, till he be ranſom’d home.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To pierce, as with a lance; to lance."
      ],
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        [
          "pierce",
          "pierce"
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          "lance",
          "lance"
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        "(obsolete) To pierce, as with a lance; to lance."
      ],
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      "glosses": [
        "To throw, as a lance; to let fly; to launch."
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "launch"
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        "(obsolete) To throw, as a lance; to let fly; to launch."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lanch"
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  "etymology_number": 1,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lanches",
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        "plural"
      ]
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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
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        }
      ],
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        "A large bed of flints."
      ],
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          "bed",
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          "flint"
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        "(UK, dialect) A large bed of flints."
      ],
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        "UK",
        "dialectal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lanch"
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  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_text": "See lance, launch.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lanches",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lanching",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lanched",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lanched",
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          "ref": "c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:",
          "text": "And gainſt the General we will lift our ſwords\nAnd either lanch his greedie thirſting throat,\nOr take him priſoner, and his chaine ſhall ſerue\nFor Manackles, till he be ranſom’d home.",
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      ],
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        "To pierce, as with a lance; to lance."
      ],
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          "lance",
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        "(obsolete) To pierce, as with a lance; to lance."
      ],
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        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
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        "To throw, as a lance; to let fly; to launch."
      ],
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        "(obsolete) To throw, as a lance; to let fly; to launch."
      ],
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  "word": "lanch"
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