enoch
See also: Enoch
English
Etymology
Named after a blacksmith Enoch Taylor of Marsden, Yorkshire. Used by Luddites to smash cropping machines, Taylor made sledgehammers and also the machine frames which sparked riots: "Enoch made them. Enoch shall break them".
Noun
enoch (plural enochs)
- (dialectal, Yorkshire) an iron sledgehammer
- 1987 [1981], Tony Harrison, “On Not Being Milton”, in Continuous: 50 sonnets from 'The School of Eloquence' (Poetry), London: Rex Collins, →ISBN:
- Each swung cast-iron Enoch of Leeds stress
clangs a forged music on the frames of Art,
the looms of owned language smashed apart!
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Anagrams
- Cohen, chone, cohen