gyre
verb
[ ˈdʒʌɪə ]
• whirl or gyrate.
• "a swarm of ghosts gyred around him"
gyre
noun
• a spiral or vortex.
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘whirl someone or something round’): from late Latin gyrare, from Latin gyrus ‘a ring’, from Greek guros . The noun is from Latin gyrus .
