Darning a sock
"There is a touch of enchantment for me about the idea that an active verb could fall out of recognition, because the activity it describes seems no longer to serve a purpose. It says so much about the power of language to capture our lived experience. As long as a word can conjure up a vivid picture in our minds it maintains a fingertip-hold on the collective imagination. Once those pictures are irretrievably lost, so is the word's ability to convey meaning richly to us - significance derived from shared experience, beneath the surface of the words themselves." Lisa Jardine on the BEEB.