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Webster 1913 Edition

(lȧnch)

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Lanched

(lȧncht)

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Lanching

. See

To throw, as a lance; to let fly; to launch.

See Whose arm can

lanch

the surer bolt.

Dryden & Lee.

Verb.

[from lance.]

To throw, as a lance; to dart; to let fly.

See whose arm can lanch the surer bolt.

To move, or cause to slide from the land into the water; as, to lanch a ship.

Verb.

To dart or fly off; to push off; as, to lanch into the wide world; to lanch into a wide field of discussion.

, n.

The sliding or movement of a ship from the land into the water, on ways prepared for the purpose.

A kind of boat, longer, lower, and more flat-bottomed than a long boat.