The verb meant to make level or smooth and it occurs in the inventories of goldsmiths, in contexts which suggest that metal was flattened on a small anvil by blows from a special hammer.
In early uses of this word the references are to placing plants in the ground or to establishing settlements of people overseas, as in Ireland and New England. As a word for a new wood of planted trees it is recorded from 1669 (OED).
A rare word, for which the OED offers two possible meanings, either a lock in which the works are pivoted on an iron plate or one for an outside door, encased in wood.
Used of the saplings which sprang from the stool or stoven of a tree in the coppice cycle. They could be felled at the end of the cycle or allowed to grow into more substantial trees.
There are references to pontage from the twelfth century (OED): it was a toll levied on goods that crossed certain bridges and it was supposed to contribute to their maintenance.
A portable breviary, that is the book which in the Roman Catholic church contained the ‘Divine Office’ for each day, and had to be ready to hand for those in orders.