Honestly, pretty effective, I used to balance the mattresses on my head when working in a dorm. Many societies used this approach to move things, and with three of them the have the definition of a geometric plane.
Sometimes English feels like the lost-sock bin in an apartment building’s laundry room (yes, “kingly”, “regal”, “royal”, and “queenly” are almost synonyms), but I’m delighted to learn English borrowed “formic” along the way.