Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The neck.
- noun A depression on the crest of a mountain or hill; a hollow between two hills. Also written swyre, sware.
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- noun obsolete The
neck . - noun A hollow between two hills or peaks, especially with a road running through it; a
vale .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In ward wary the watcher hearing come that man mildhearted eft rising with swire ywimpled to him her gate wide undid.
Ulysses 2003
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In ward wary the watcher hearing come that man mildhearted eft rising with swire ywimpled to him her gate wide undid.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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As he approached the swire at the head of the dell -- that little delightful verge from which in one moment the eastern limits and shores of Lothian arise on the view -- as he approached it, I say, and a little space from the height, he beheld, to his astonishment, a bright halo in the cloud of haze, that rose in a semicircle over his head like a pale rainbow.
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner James Hogg 1802
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qms commented on the word swire
While some to bare hilltops aspire
And others scale cliffs of desire,
The sage wisely seeks
The way between peaks
And tranquilly travels the swire.
May 10, 2016