The winner

[Aussie Meyer]

Hutch wrote:

> 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

Like a gyroscope? Or a gyro meat spindle? Or Gyro Gearloose? Wowie, the 
Wikipedia lists 25 names of different nationality for Gyro Gearloose!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyro_Gearloose