creak

Because, for all this week's haka hoopla, for all the tourists' dominant history, this is a New Zealand team that creak when their predecessors - with 34 wins from 45 previous meetings - didn't.

Just the sunny day causing an old building to creak and groan, or something uncanny?

Rumble, wheeze, groan, roar, whoosh, clank, thud, creak and repeat — this, for me, is the onset of bus reverie.

I could hear the slight creak of bamboo and bone as the bow bent.

The wooden stairs creak under our weight, and I wave cobwebs outta my face.