This “clinching” can distort the tape by causing a series of creases or folds in the surface and may produce read errors.

A thousand tribes' worth of memory and rite flowed underground, cooling for a year, to roar like a cataract at the appointed hour, and inevitably to dry up again, some bossling having carried off the tawdry shield.

I cheered at the banderilleros’ display / as they stuck the bull in their own clever way[…]

He observed that it was not one of the homely flys from the under-hill town, but apparently from the popular resort across the bay.