So, it turns out that while Edward Lear invented the word "Runcible" it had no set meaning and nothing much stuck (except very tenuously, as a synonym for "spork").
I am now racking my brains for a suitable thing in my new space opera to pin "runcible" onto. Maybe the name of whatever they use instead of computers?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runcible
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