diff --git a/doc.go b/doc.go
index eb4017f..f6a59dd 100644
--- a/doc.go
+++ b/doc.go
@@ -32,8 +32,9 @@ package fejkdata
 //     `pinSet`, `pinSet.pin`, `table.drawIn`.
 //   - family — a table and every table reaching it through a chain of
 //     `table.parentT`, named by the root that chain ends at: `table.family`.
-//   - whole — a read that lands on a `tableRow`, so the row renders through its table's
-//     format: `tableRead.landsWhole` says a read did, `table.wholeRow` is the node.
+//   - whole — a read of a table with no selector and no descent, {/city}, landing on
+//     the `table` itself: it draws a row apart from every pin, so the fences keep the rows
+//     its cells stand in as `drawAt.wholePins`, beside `drawAt.wholeTable`.
 //   - fence — a load-time check, so rendering a compiled tree cannot fail: `New`
 //     runs them over the data set, `NewTemplate` and `FakeStruct` over what those
 //     compile. The draw fences are `heldCheck`, `drawCheck` and `checkFamilies`.
diff --git a/doc_test.go b/doc_test.go
index b5d228d..ce32fff 100644
--- a/doc_test.go
+++ b/doc_test.go
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ func vocabulary(t *testing.T, files []*ast.File) string {
 }
 
 // declaredSymbols is every name the package declares at the top level, a method and
-// a struct field keyed under its type: pinSet.pin, tableRead.landsWhole.
+// a struct field keyed under its type: pinSet.pin, tableRead.landsRow.
 func declaredSymbols(files []*ast.File) map[string]bool {
 	names := declaredFuncs(files)
 	for _, f := range files {
diff --git a/drawfence.go b/drawfence.go
index 5adad1d..f8c5dd7 100644
--- a/drawfence.go
+++ b/drawfence.go
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ func (w *drawWalk) check() error {
 			if into.at.group != level.at.group || alternatives(level.at, into.at) {
 				continue
 			}
-			if strings.HasPrefix(into.a.path, level.a.path+".") && !(level.tr != nil && level.tr.landsWhole) {
+			if strings.HasPrefix(into.a.path, level.a.path+".") && !(level.tr != nil && level.tr.landsRow) {
 				return overlapError(level.at.route, level.a.spelling, into)
 			}
 		}
diff --git a/drawfence_test.go b/drawfence_test.go
index 6d28bf7..bb6004d 100644
--- a/drawfence_test.go
+++ b/drawfence_test.go
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ func renderRoot(s *session, t *template) {
 			var set holdSet
 			sc := renderScope{set: &set}
 			sc.hold().pins.pin(t.table, r)
-			render(s, t.table.wholeRow, sc)
+			render(s, t.table.pinnedRow, sc)
 		}
 	case t.cellOf != nil:
 		sc.t, sc.row = t.cellOf, t.cellRow
diff --git a/family.go b/family.go
index 05ca01b..3b0c0fe 100644
--- a/family.go
+++ b/family.go
@@ -10,11 +10,11 @@ import (
 // row pinned, and their unpinned ancestors — each selector's spelling, and whether
 // it lands on a row rendered whole.
 type tableRead struct {
-	headTable  *table
-	pins       pinSet
-	drawn      map[*table]bool
-	sels       []tableSel
-	landsWhole bool
+	headTable *table
+	pins      pinSet
+	drawn     map[*table]bool
+	sels      []tableSel
+	landsRow  bool
 }
 
 // tableSel is one selector on the way: the table it selects a row of, and the path
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ func tableReadOf(head node, a arm, leaf node) *tableRead {
 			cur = d
 		}
 	}
-	_, tr.landsWhole = leaf.(*tableRow)
+	_, tr.landsRow = leaf.(*tableRow)
 	return tr
 }
 
diff --git a/hold.go b/hold.go
index 10ec227..cee9335 100644
--- a/hold.go
+++ b/hold.go
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ type renderTrace struct {
 
 // readHold is the hold a held read keeps its draw in: for a reference that reads a path,
 // the render's hold for its group, so its draw spans the render; for a sibling, or a
-// reference read whole, held.
+// bare reference, held.
 func readHold(held *hold, sc renderScope, a arm) *hold {
 	if isRef(a.key) && len(a.tail) > 0 {
 		return sc.hold()
diff --git a/node.go b/node.go
index dff687b..62c791d 100644
--- a/node.go
+++ b/node.go
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ func (*nullItem) isNode() {}
 // that many times and joins the results with separator (default ""), each render
 // an independent pick. A format holding a reference compiles in `linkTemplateRefs`.
 type template struct {
-	// Filled by `compileString`, `compileTemplate` and `table.compileWhole`:
+	// Filled by `compileString`, `compileTemplate` and `table.compileRowFormat`:
 	format     string
 	tokens     []formatToken
 	fields     map[string]node
diff --git a/path.go b/path.go
index 68e9860..2853225 100644
--- a/path.go
+++ b/path.go
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ func walkTable(t *table, tail []string, w pathWalk, descended bool) (node, error
 	case len(tail) == 0 && sel == "" && !descended:
 		return walkPath(t, nil, w)
 	case len(tail) == 0:
-		return walkPath(t.wholeRow, nil, w)
+		return walkPath(t.pinnedRow, nil, w)
 	case child != nil:
 		return walkTable(child, tail[1:], w, true)
 	}
diff --git a/table.go b/table.go
index 5502e8d..d577ba0 100644
--- a/table.go
+++ b/table.go
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ type table struct {
 	header         []string
 	col            map[string]int
 	fields         map[string]node // column nodes, the format's fields
-	wholeRow       *tableRow       // the pinned row rendered by the format
-	cells          []string        // rows × columns, flat
+	pinnedRow      *tableRow
+	cells          []string // rows × columns, flat
 	cellTemplates  map[int]*template
 	keyIndex       int // keyIndex through parentIndex are column indexes, -1 where the option is absent
 	nameIndex      int
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ func compileTable(m map[string]any, category string, files *categoryFiles) (*tab
 	if err := t.checkCells(); err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", o.rows, err)
 	}
-	if err := t.compileWhole(o.format); err != nil {
+	if err := t.compileRowFormat(o.format); err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 	return t, nil
@@ -321,9 +321,9 @@ func (t *table) checkCells() error {
 	return nil
 }
 
-// compileWhole compiles the format a row renders whole through, over the columns
-// as its fields.
-func (t *table) compileWhole(format string) error {
+// compileRowFormat compiles the format a row renders through, over the columns as its
+// fields.
+func (t *table) compileRowFormat(format string) error {
 	toks, err := parseFormat(format)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ func (t *table) compileWhole(format string) error {
 		return err
 	}
 	t.formatTemplate = &template{format: format, tokens: toks, fields: t.fields, repeat: 1, isRecord: true, table: t}
-	t.wholeRow = &tableRow{t}
+	t.pinnedRow = &tableRow{t}
 	return t.formatTemplate.compileRefFree()
 }
 
diff --git a/table_test.go b/table_test.go
index 397c10a..c1376d6 100644
--- a/table_test.go
+++ b/table_test.go
@@ -599,7 +599,7 @@ func TestTableRowsAreAlternatives(t *testing.T) {
 		"a cell reaching a table whose rows are alternatives": {"country.tsv": "alpha2\tname\tmoney\nFI\tFinland\t{/y.sym}\nSE\tSweden\t{/cur[SEK].sym}\n"},
 		"a cell agreeing with the row it selects":             {"country.tsv": "alpha2\tname\tmoney\nFI\tFinland\t{/y[1].sym} {/cur[SEK].sym}\nSE\tSweden\t{/cur[SEK].sym}\n"},
 		"a selected row's cell beside the row it agrees with": {"z.json": `"{/country[SE].money} {/cur[SEK].sym}"`},
-		"a selected row whole beside the row it agrees with":  {"z.json": `"{/country[SE]} {/cur[SEK].sym}"`},
+		"a selected row beside the row it agrees with":        {"z.json": `"{/country[SE]} {/cur[SEK].sym}"`},
 		"a column under a selected ancestor": {
 			"city.json": `{"format":"{name} {money}","rows":"city.tsv","key":"name","parent":"country"}`,
 			"city.tsv":  "name\tcountry\tmoney\nHelsinki\tFI\t{/cur[EUR].sym}\nMalmö\tSE\t{/cur[SEK].sym}\nLund\tSE\t{/cur[SEK].sym}\n",
diff --git a/todo.md b/todo.md
index bb5e0d4..f323474 100644
--- a/todo.md
+++ b/todo.md
@@ -21,9 +21,6 @@ Self-sufficiency 5.6), every seat capped by Locality, and all nine naming
 
 This round, in order:
 
-- Give "whole" one meaning: `doc.go` defines it as a read landing on a `tableRow`,
-  while `drawAt.wholeTable`, `checkFamilyPair` and `checkOwnFamily`'s comment use it for
-  a bare read landing on a `*table`, the one that draws without pinning.
 - Give a table's current row one owner: `renderScope.t` and `row` hold it beside the
   `pinSet`, and `renderLeaf` reads a column's null back from a hold `readField` wrote.
 - Split `walkPath`'s four modes, so a caller does not select a behaviour by which of