The EDD has 'kerf' meaning a saw-cut or incision and this may be an alternative spelling. In the only example noted it was apparently a ring cut round the trunk of a tree.
The church stile, located at the point where the kirk gate reached the enclosure around the kirk garth, first noted in an undated thirteenth-century charter.
Although a kitchen was usually a room or part of a house where food was prepared, it may sometimes have been a separate building, perhaps similar to an ‘oven-house’.
Most Sheffield cutlers were making cheap knives for the mass market but there were exceptions, and the inventory of Robert Rhodes listed a wide variety of less-common products.
A standing stone or a pile of stones. It can in some respects be compared with ‘law’, which was also used of boundary markers, occasionally as a direct alternative.
The prospective owner of a new house would be granted the right to place a ladder on ground adjoining the building so that he might maintain the property.
In this solitary example, ‘lake’ seems to be used of a stream or an area under water close to a spring which served to fill the moat of a newly-built house.