This word had several closely related meanings which all refer to raised ways, either across low-lying land subject to flooding or at the side of tracks used by pedestrians and horses.
A specialist forge, worked from the late sixteenth century in conjunction with a finery. It derives from the French word for 'to heat' and was where cast iron was re-heated and converted into wrought iron.
An early spelling of carbuncle which derives from the Latin for a small piece of coal and was used in the Middle Ages of a fiery red precious stone, a ruby.
An early spelling of cheese-vat, the vessel in which the curds were pressed and moulded, described by Peter Brears as a cylindrical cooper-made implement.