Sentence:  Thus much for their fraternities, names, lodgings, and assemblies, at all which times everyone of them carries a short staff in his hand, which is called a <WSD>filch</WSD>, having in the nab, or head, of it, a ferme (that is to say, a hole) into which, upon any piece of service, when he goes a filching, he putteth a hook of iron, with which hook he angles at a window in the dead of night, for shirts, smocks, or any other linen or woollen. And for that reason is the staff called a <WSD>filch</WSD>. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A hooked stick used to filch objects.