Someone who makes, repairs and fits locks; a widely distributed craft represented in all major towns in medieval Yorkshire and in some of the villages.
When lodge came into English from French it meant a hut, arbour or small house, a temporary building. It then came to be used of a keeper’s house in a deer park and this meaning survived into the seventeenth century at least.
An unglazed opening in a wall, originally in a defensive wall, designed to allow missiles to be directed at an attacker. From the seventeenth century it was a similar opening in a barn, through which hay or straw could be forked.
A name which marked a stage in the growth of a timber tree, perhaps meaning ‘less than a lord’, or used more literally for the greatest trees in a wood.
Literally ‘god’s house’, a hospital or refuge for the old and infirm. Such institutions were in all major towns and cities from the fourteenth century.