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hlinc

  • noun [ masculine ]
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hlinc, es; m.
a link, linch, rising ground; 'agger limitaneus, parœchias, etc, dividens,'
  • Junius.
The word occurs in the charters, e.g.
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  • Of ðere díc on þornhlinch; ðanone on dynes hlinch; of ðam hlince,

    • Cod. Dipl. Kmbl. iii. 223, 29.

  • Ðanon on ðone miclan hlinc,

    • Chart. Th. 160, 24.

  • Fearnhlinc, landsore hlinc, sweord hlincas, wotan hlinc

In later times, the word is given with a similar sense in provincial glossaries, e.g. in Suffolk some woods are called links: linchets grass partitions in arable fields,
  • Lisle
: linch a bawke or litele strip of land, to bound the fields in open countries,
  • Pegge's Kenticisms.
  • v. E. D. S. Publications, and Halliwell's Dict.
a hill, rising ground
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  • Beorgas ne muntas steápe ne stondaþ ne stánclifu heah hlifiaþ ne dene ne dalu ne dúnscrafu hlǽwas ne hlincas

    nec tumulus crescit nec cava vallis hiat,

    • Exon. 56 a;
    • Th. 199, 13;
    • Ph. 25.

  • Heá hlincas,

    • 101 b;
    • Th. 384, 7;
    • Rä. 4, 24.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hlinc.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/19274.

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