An early spelling of pattern: it occurred several times in founders’ inventories where it clearly referred to a model or mould of the objects they produced.
To pave was to lay stones closely together in order to create a compact, smooth surface, particularly for the public highways in major towns: the word was responsible for an important York street name.
The pax was a tablet of gold, silver or other precious material, which bore an image of the crucifixion or the Saviour, and it was kissed by the celebrating priest at mass before being passed to other clergy and members of the congregation. The paxbred had a similar function but was so called because it was originally a wooden board.
Historians now use this word for the fortified houses and towers in the border regions of England and Scotland. Originally, the ‘peel’ was a stake or palisade but then a building within the palisade and by the fourteenth century a small castle (OED).
From the fourteenth century the custom of classifying nails according to the original price per hundred became increasingly common, so a fivepenny nail was a nail which cost 5d a hundred.