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Swire

//swaɪə// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    The neck. obsolete
  2. 2
    A hollow between two hills or peaks, especially with a road running through it; a vale.

    "As he approached the swire at the head of the dell […], he beheld, to his astonishment, a bright halo in the cloud of haze, that rose in a semi-circle over his head like a pale rainbow."

Etymology

From Middle English swire, from Old English swēora, from Proto-Germanic *swerhô.

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