mark
Land held in common by, e.g., a village community. 2. Proper name of certain principalities, e.g. Mark of Brandenburg. 3. Indicator of a boundary, e.g. a post or stone marker. 4. Masonry monument. 5. Sign or token. 6. Device or incised character indicating ownership or origin, e.g. mason’s mark, used to identify work done, as in medieval buildings. 7. In Freemasonry, a designation of a grade, degree, or rank of a mark-mason: a mark-lodge is therefore a lodge of mark-masons. 8. Denomination of weight (mostly for gold or silver), therefore a monetary value which, in the Middle Ages, was about two-thirds of a Pound Sterling. (Curl & Wilson, 2016)
