Comment by swiftcoder
8 hours 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.
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mentioned in TFA
>The etymology does not go back to Lewis Carroll’s 1876 poem about an imaginary creature,