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#1·Apr 27, 2026

(dialect, Yorkshire) an iron sledgehammer.

Each swung cast-iron Enoch of Leeds stressclangs a forged music on the frames of Art,the looms of owned language smashed apart!
Origin: 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". Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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  • enoch! he is a 40 yr old abinary transoutherine individual who uses he/it thon/thons and e/em pronouns. thon is seraphim and oraphim angelkin alterhuman :3 #oc #art #ocsky

    Bluesky· May 2026
  • Zack, Trevor and the Bad Enoch bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/05/04/z...

    Bluesky· May 2026
  • Enoch Daniels - Unknown Urdu Title [India/Pakistan, Soundtrack, Instrumental, Swing] (196?) ripped from a rare Pakistani EP of the Indian multi-instrumentalist Enoch Light https://redd.it/dagkeq https://youtu.be/g2U8WZhruJ0

    Bluesky· May 2026
  • Thanks to Sara R. Burnett for sharing one of her poem's origin stories! Read about her poem “Cherchez la Femme,” a finalist for the 2019 Enoch Pratt Free Library Poetry Prize and published in Little Patuxent Review. chloeyelenamiller.substack.com/p/poems-orig...

    Bluesky· May 2026
  • Different times... Here's an ad in the Feb 72 edition of Music Scene, where both Ted Heath and Enoch Powell are entreating you to buy a copy of next month's mag...

    Bluesky· May 2026
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