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单词 swire
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swiren.

/swʌɪə/
Forms: α. Old English sweora, Middle English sweor, Middle English swore, Middle English sweore; Middle English suere, Middle English swere, (Middle English zuere), Middle English–1500s sweere. β. Old English swiora, swyra, swira, suira, swura, Middle English swiere, Middle English swure, (Middle English suire, suyre, swyer), Middle English–1500s swyr, (Middle English squyre, 1500s swyir, 1600s suir), Middle English–1800s swyre, Middle English– swire. γ. Chiefly ScottishMiddle English–1500s swar, Middle English–1500s, 1800s sware, 1500s, 1700s–1800s swair, (1800s squair).
Etymology: Old English swéora, swíora, Northumbrian and late West Saxon swíra, late West Saxon swýra, swúra weak masculine < Germanic *swerhan-, related to Old Norse svíri neck, beak of a ship, local name of a neck-shaped ridge in Iceland < *swerhjan-; ulterior relations uncertain. It is not certain whether the forms swar(e , swair , which are chiefly Scottish, have arisen from false analogy (compare, e.g., quair , quere , quire n., and sware, swere, swire), or through exigency of rhyme.
1. The neck. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > neck > [noun]
swirec888
neckeOE
halseOE
hattrelc1330
cannelc1400
channelc1425
crag1488
kennel?1533
pile1584
neck-piece1605
neck parta1627
nub1673
cervix1741
squeeze1819
scrag1829
α., β.
c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xix. §1 Þæt ge underlutan mid eowrum swiran þet deaðlice geoc.
a900 Lorica Gloss. 21 in Old Eng. Texts 172 Cladam, swiran [altered to swioran later].
971 Blickl. Hom. 223 Þa he þa Sanctus Martinus þæt geseah, þa dyde he sona þæt hrægl of his sweoran.
971 Blickl. Hom. 241 Gif eow swa licige uton sendon rap on his swyran.
c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 157/38 Collum, sweora uel swura.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 49 Þenne ualleð he þer inne þet him brekeð þe sweore.
c1200 Moral Ode 146 in Trin. Coll. Hom. 224 Swines brade is wel swete swo is of wilde diere Ac al to dire he hit abuið þe ȝiefð þar-fore his swiere [earlier version dore, swore].
a1225 Leg. Kath. 2233 Streche forð þine swire scharp sweord to underfonne.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2002 Heo cærf him þene swure [c1300 Otho swere] a-twa.
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 5028 Ely..fyl bakward of hys chayre, And brak on two hys swyer.
13.. K. Alis. (Laud) 1938 Vp he dresseþ heued & swire And gynneþ speke on þis maner.
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 3643 Ys scheld þan heng he aboute ys swyre, And forþ he prykede with gret yre.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 30 Sche aboute hire whyte swere It dede, and hyng hirselven there.
a1400 Leg. Rood (1871) 134 Mi mouþ I pulte, my sweore I streiȝt To cusse his feet.
c1400 Melayne 36 Ladyes swete of Swyre.
c1430 Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 1175 She leid hir arme about his swere, She kyssed him with hertie chere.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 316 Vpon the hede he straik with so gret Ire, Throu bayne and brayn in sondir schar the swyr.
?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) i. l. 280 in Shorter Poems (1967) 26 Vp be the swyre [1579 Edinb. swire] My self I hangit.
?a1600 Marr. Sir Gawain ii. 58 in Percy's Reliques (1857) 388 Sir Kay beheld that lady's face And looked upon her sweere.
γ. c1440 Bone Flor. 441 But yf he to hym hys doghtur geve, That ys so swete of sware [rhymes fare, thare, mare].1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. cvi Mony sweit thing of sware swownit full oft.1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid i. ii. 37 That lillie quhite of [1553 erron. as] swair.a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 171 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 100 Swannis suowchand full swyth swetest of sware [rhymes blythar, war, ar].?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) i. l. 214 in Shorter Poems (1967) 22 A quene, as lylly swete of sware [1579 Edinb. swair].
2. A hollow near the summit of a mountain or hill; a gentle depression between two hills. local (occurs in several place-names in Scotland and the north of England).Old English gesweoru translates Latin colles in Ags. Psalter (ed. Thorpe). Old English sweoru is used also = neck of water or strait, Latin fretum.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun] > on or among hills
saddleOE
swirec1050
pocket1745
lap1747
rock basin1754
niche1756
sliddera1793
corrie1795
cove1805
slot1808
bay1853
punchbowl1855
c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 427/13 Iuga, duna swioran.
c1216 Newminster Cartul. (1878) 77 Ad crucem positam super le Swire de Fastside.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvii. 13 Fra redis swyr till orkynnay.
?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 55 The soft sowch of the swyr and sovne of the stremys.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iv. iv. 50 Lo! ther the rais, rynning swyft as fyre, Drevin from the hychtis brekkis out at the swyre.
1573 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxxix. 350 He raid throw montanes mony, mose, and myre..Then wes he worsland our ane wondie swyre.
a1598 D. Fergusson Sc. Prov. (1641) sig. D3v Little kens the wife that sits by the fire, how the winde blowes cold in hurle burle swyre.
1790 A. Tait in Contemp. Burns (1844) 144 Then from Dewar's Swair I tripped on my shanks.
1820 W. Chambers Life Bl. Dwarf (1885) 1 A gentle rising hill to the south-west, called Manor Swire.
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Swire, the hollow or declination of a mountain or hill, near the summit... The lower neck which connects the higher eminences in a chain of hills.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations. swire-bone n. Obsolete = neck-bone n.swireforth adv. Obsolete neck forward, headlong.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > neck bone > [noun]
swire-bonec825
neckc1275
cannel-bonea1325
neck-bonec1330
nuke-bone1562
halse-bone1794
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [adverb] > headlong
swireforthc825
a-randounc1380
headlya1425
headlongsc1540
eavelong1567
headlong1576
rank1590
headlongly1595
precipitously1626
neck-break1631
precipitantly1656
precipitately1728
precipitatedly1770
torrentially1882
slap-dab1886
c825 Vesp. Hymns vi. 28 in O.E.T. 408 Usque ad cervices, oð swirban.
c1230 Hali Meid. 23 Leste hwase leope..& driue adun swireuorð, wiðuten ikepunge, deope into helle.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 2959 The swyers swyre-bane he swappes in sondyre!
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