There are in fact many such subterranean underways in Germany, speeding traffic beneath bergs, burgs and villages and into and around and under big city downtowns ...

an idle story;  idle talk;  idle rumor

One method that has been carried out by the Zapatistas and by their sympathizers is the practice of consulta, referendum, and plebisite.[…] A consulta has to do with voting, but it is voting that takes place alongside debate between different people.

[…] the making of sheathing and ship's pumps. This last rather unmarine field included more than a third of the patents before 1800, which may be one explanation for the predominance of landlubbers in early marine patenting.