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)

1. (dialect, 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

• Cheon, Cohen, chone, cohen