Charcoal-burners used sods or turves to cover and seal the cordwood in their pits, thus preventing combustion. The right to get these within the wood was often written into the terms of a lease.
Within the manorial system this was a right attached to a mill which required the tenants of certain lands to have the corn they produced ground there, or the cloths they made fulled there.
An artificial water course, drain or sewer; a word commonly found in documents which relate to works associated with bridges, mills, the farming landscape, and coal-pits in particular.
A regional word used in descriptions of an animal’s skin colour, particularly cows. It has been said to mean flecked, speckled, spotted, and even pied (OED).