Comment by swiftcoder

3 months ago

I recall the poem, The Hunting of the Snark:

  "Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried,
    As he landed his crew with care;
  Supporting each man on the top of the tide
    By a finger entwined in his hair.
    ...

mentioned in TFA

>The etymology does not go back to Lewis Carroll’s 1876 poem about an imaginary creature,