A kind of deer-leap which involved a modification of the pale around a park. It allowed deer to enter the park but made it difficult for them to leap out again.
A word noted only in Yorkshire sources. It was a cloth, defined by Meriton as ‘between Linnen and Hempen, not altogether so coarse as the one nor fine as the other’.
A young tree: in a survey of Bilsdale in north Yorkshire the word was used frequently for ashes and oaks which were almost always valued at 1s, the same as a sapling.
In the single example noted the reference was to a type of fabric, possibly one such as ‘sarks’ were made of, or a misreading of ‘sacken’, for sack cloth.
In early contexts, the scaffold was probably a temporary platform, supported on poles or trestles, which gave workmen access to the higher sections of the building that they were working on.