Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;

from Lewis Carroll – Jabberwocky on Rap Genius

“And what’s to ‘gyre’ and to ‘gimble’?”

“To ‘gyre’ is to go round and round like a gyroscope. To ‘gimble’ is to make holes like a gimlet.”

“And ‘the wabe’ is the grass plot round a sun-dial, I suppose?” said Alice, surprised at her own ingenuity.

“Of course it is. It’s called ‘wabe’, you know, because it goes a long way before it, and a long way behind it—”

“And a long way beyond it on each side,” Alice added.

—Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

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