gyred

Verb

gyre (third-person singular simple present gyres, present participle gyring, simple past and past participle gyred)

1. (intransitive, literary, poetic) To spin around; to gyrate, to whirl.
   • The host of heauenly beautyes moue, / Depainted in their proper stories, / As well the fixd as wandring glories, / Which from their proper orbes not goe, / Whether they gyre swift or slowe: […]1605, Michael Drayton, “[Songs from the ‘Shepherd’s Garland’.] From Eclogue ij.”, in Cyril Brett, editor, Minor Poems of Michael Drayton, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 1907, →OCLC...

   Synonyms:

   revolve, rotate

2. (literary, poetic, rare, transitive) To make (something) spin or whirl around; to spin, to whirl.

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