swire

Jun. 15th, 2016 07:59 am
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swire (SWAIR) - n., a hollow between two hills.


Especially, per some dictionaries, one with a road running through it. This is an Old English descendant (then spelled swēora) that survives in Scotland and Northern England -- though not, I think, an especially common one.

---L.
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