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OK, I looked up cruck - Cruck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruck Wikipedia A cruck or crook frame is a curved timber, one of a pair, which supports the roof of a building, used particularly in England. This type of timber framing consists of long, generally naturally curved, timber members that lean inwards and form the ridge of the roof. Urban Dictionary: cruck www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cruck Urban Dictionary Cruck. 1. To be yelled at 2. to be in a dramatic scene that you would not want to be in. 1. You are sitting in class and someone starts yelling at you you would say ... google cruck for some great pix of curved timber… Max On Feb 25, 2015, at 13:43, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 'cruck' is a good word, Pat. Your coinage? My bones are feeling that way lately too. > > Cheers, > Bill > > >> On 25 Feb 2015, at 8:29 pm, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> Dear Poet Gang As I get ever further out from the coast of the present >> floundering wave battered and all the rest of it on a grey gray?South London >> pre spring morning a snapple !! >> >> >> >> CLIPPITY >> >> clippity crickety >> crack cruck >> mad busy world >> pushy tic tac >> clippity crickety >> crack cruck >> tended to >> pass him by >> clippity crickety >> crack cruck >> for which he >> is most grateful >> clippity crickety >> crack cruck >> >> >> pmcmanus >> r707 draft >>