A type of nail, usually said to be large, and used in fixing gutters, although references in the churchwardens’ account of St Michael, Spurriergate, link such nails with ‘tingles’, in securing the bell wheels and carved angels’ wings.
This was the original name for what we now call ‘Bonfire night or ‘Plot night’, the celebration on 5 November of the failed attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605.
The OED has examples from 1523 and says 'derivation unknown' but it occurs as a place-name element and Smith considered it to be a form of head, via Middle English haved (PNWR2/253). It was used of unploughed land in the open field, but was evidently distinct from headland.
This alternative word for ‘hall’, in the sense of the main room of the house, may have come into use in the reign of Henry VIII and examples have been noted during a period of at least eighty years.