wyre
/wˈaɪɹ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.01 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A local government district with borough status in Lancashire, which is named after the river.
Example Sentences
- "Her long loose yellow locks lyke golden wyre, Sprinckled with perle, and perling flowres atweene, Doe lyke a golden mantle her attyre, And, being crowned with a girland greene, Seem lyke some mayden queene."
- "A prettie rysing wombe without a weame, / That shone as bright as anie siluer streame; / And bare out like the bending of an hill, / At whose decline a fountaine dwelleth still; / That hath his mouth besett with uglie bryers, / Resembling much a duskie nett of wyres; […]"
- "Randle Holmes says, the ladies wore "false locks set on wyres, to make them stand at a distance from the head," and accompanies the information with the figure of a lady "with a pair of locks and curls which were in great fashion in 1670.""