Enoch

Definitions

1. an iron sledgehammer
   Yorkshire, dialectal
2. In the Bible, one of the few people recorded as being taken by God before death.
3. The title of three apocryphal books of the Bible.
4. First son of Cain.
5. A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
6. A First Nation reserve in Alberta, Canada; the postal name of Stony Plain Indian Reserve No. 135.

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Examples

“Enoch was the son of Jared, and was Noah’s great grandfather.”

“And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.”

“And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name⟳ of the city, after the name⟳ of his son, Enoch.”

“There Enoch spoke no word to any one, But homeward—home—what home? had he a home? His home, he walk'd.”

“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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