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On Sat, 7 Oct 2006, Fran Poodry wrote:

> guiver -v.-  [falconry] To spiral inwards; compare guiser and gyre.
> -Hutch, 1 point
> This word made me think of falconry too.  is there some birdy wordy that
> sounds like "guiver" that I know subconsciously? so: 1 pt! - Ranjit
> I *think* "gyre" was coing by Lewis Carroll (in "Jabberwocky"), and isn't a
> real word. - Jean-Joseph

I bet what Ranjit's thinking of is Yeats's "The Second Coming":

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

etc., etc.

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/289.html

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