Clemmy

The column, as the admirable Margery points out, is in no position to cast the first clemmy.

The nets are held down by what in those parts are known as clemmies, the dressing room's in a broken windowed community centre a quarter of a mile away, the game's watched by half a dozen Januses with an eye on the adjoining pitch.

A little boy – let's call him Fergus, because that's what his mother did – climbed to the top of the tree house and took great pleasure in hoyin' clemmies at the people below.