With hands like derricks, Looks fierce and black as rooks from "The Queen's Complaint," Sylvia Plath
Hey...that is surprisingly eponymous!
From the Online Etymology Dictionary:"c.1600, originally "hangman," then "a gallows," then "hoist, crane" (1727), from surname of a hangman at Tyburn gallows, London, c.1606-1608, often referred to in contemporary theater."
With hands like derricks,
Looks fierce and black as rooks
from "The Queen's Complaint," Sylvia Plath
Hey...that is surprisingly eponymous!
From the Online Etymology Dictionary:
"c.1600, originally "hangman," then "a gallows," then "hoist, crane" (1727), from surname of a hangman at Tyburn gallows, London, c.1606-1608, often referred to in contemporary theater."