This accounted for exceptions to lexical generalisations in a discourse context in two areas : logical metonymy and compound nouns.
Usually translated as wrestling pit or arena, it has become a metonymy for the wrestling club or team that uses a particular pit.
This process we can identify, at least poetically, as metonymy or synecdoche.
Both classify and interpret verbal devices such as metonymy and metaphor, and both use errors and pathologies for distinguishing among classes of verbal behavior.
So, just as with logical metonymy, there are some linguistic constraints on compounds which must be represented.
But the discourse context can also be used to provide clues about how to expand the metonymy.
On the other hand we can often misunderstand the quick metonymies, the condensations, the primary process, of our own minds.
An example is crayon, which is known as "pencil" but which can also have the meaning "drawing" (instrument-to-result metonymy).
