Punishment
A friction between certain branches that wears rather than breaks; the name is an old legal metaphor.
In one sentence
A friction between certain branches that wears rather than breaks; the name is an old legal metaphor.
How it is used
Where a clash moves something, a punishment repeats: the same argument, the same unfinished thing coming round again, often in family or work. Its catalogue varies between schools more than harmonies or clashes do, so one reader will find it where another does not. The name sounds like a verdict and is not one; nothing in a chart hands out blame.