The winner

[Hutch]

I had understood that "gyre" was coined by Carroll as well, but that
same website <http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/52.html>
says, "The OED traces "gyre" back to 1420 as a word meaning to turn or
whirl around. This agrees with Humpty Dumpty's interpretation."

BB,
Hutch

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On 10/9/06, eLLioTT morEton <emoreton at alum.swarthmore.edu> wrote:
> 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
>
> em