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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of gyre.

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Examples

  • But not before he gyred and gimbled for a while in the wake of Sam Clemens.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • But not before he gyred and gimbled for a while in the wake of Sam Clemens.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • He felt fuddled and wayless, and the track gyred higher and higher.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • It gyred through the winds that helped to propel the Dunawake, and its essence was everywhere in the shattered lands of the Queppa.

    Carnivores of Light and Darkness Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

  • He felt fuddled and wayless, and the track gyred higher and higher.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

  • The craft gyred about, reduced forward momentum, maneuvered downward.

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • The craft gyred about, reduced forward momentum, maneuvered downward.

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • For just an instant an unfamiliar powerful emotion gyred, filling her up to the bursting point, and, her neck arched, her face turned heavenward, she allowed herself to yearn for surcease.

    The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984

  • A sense of intense excitement-of ecstasy, almost-gyred within her, fueling her for what was about to happen.

    The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984

  • She was out at a distance on the ebb-sands, hurtled, gyred, beaten to all shapes, in rolls, twists, volumes, like a blown banner-flag, by the pressing wind.

    Diana of the Crossways — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868

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