The slip said: Holly cruckled whilst running and he had no idea what it meant. […] Apparently, as many of you will already know, it means 'going over on your ankle'.

(historical)

There are numbered workings running to about 20, representing small pits and scrams, sometimes worked by contract by scrammers.

Up to a point, civilization can lift itself up by its boot-tags. However unjustly society is organized, certain technical advances are bound to benefit the whole community, because certain kinds of goods are necessarily held in common.