swire
noun/swaɪə/
Etymology From Middle English swire, from Old English swēora, from Proto-Germanic *swerhô.
1
Obsolete The neck.
2
A hollow between two hills or peaks, especially with a road running through it; a vale.
- As he approached the swire at the head of the dell […], he beheld, to his astonishment, a bright halo in the cloud of haze, that rose in a semi-circle over his head like a pale rainbow.1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford, published 2010, page 33: