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!

Anagrams

Cohen, chone, cohen

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