gyre
- n a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
- Other advisers wondered what Bush could conceivably do about the Holy Land's widening gyre.
- Astounding as it would have seemed scant months before, their gaze fell on the one fixed point in the widening gyre: a guy named Barack Hussein Obama.
- THE SECOND COMINGTurning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;.