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Webster 1913 Edition

Hanch

{

Hance

(hăns)

,

Hanch

(hănch)

, }

Noun.

[See

.]

1.

(Arch.)

See

.

2.

(Naut.)

A sudden fall or break, as the fall of the fife rail down to the gangway.

Definition 2024

hanch

hanch

English

Noun

hanch ‎(plural hanches)

Alternative form of hance

Etymology 2

Noun

hanch ‎(plural hanches)

Alternative form of haunch

References

1886, A haunch. The Squire zend 'em a beautiful hanch o' venison. — Frederick Thomas Elworthy, The West Somerset Word-Book. A Glossary of Dialectical and Archaic Words and Phrases used in the West of Somerset and East Devon.

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