dial. Also landsherd, landchet, lanchet, lanshet, langet. [f. LAND sb. + SHARD sb. The forms show contamination with the synonymous linchet.] = LINCHET.
1813. T. Davis, Agric. Wilts, App. 259. Linch, Linchet, or Landshard, the mere green-sward dividing two pieces of arable in a common-field called in Hants, a lay bank.
1847. Halliwell, Langet, a strip of ground. West.
1886. W. Somerset Gloss., Landsherd, a ridge or strip of land left unploughed or untilled.
1891. T. Hardy, Tess (1900), 104/2. A stretch of a hundred odd acres … rising above stony lanchets or lynchets.
1893. H. J. Moule, Old Dorset, 81. The terraces called landchets or linchets.
