Perne

Origin

Nonce-derivation from pern by William Butler Yeats; see the 1928 quotation.

Full definition of perne

Verb

1. To spin or gyrate (as the pern of a spinning-wheel).
• 1928, William Butler Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium", in The Tower:...
  Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
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