gyve
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
verb
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of gyve
1175–1225; Middle English give < ?
Example Sentences
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‘I gyve it hym with my charter, And sele it with my honde, To have and holde for ever more, In all mery Englonde.’
From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Frank Sidgwick
Then came Raffles with soap and water, and the gyve was wheedled from one wrist, as you withdraw a ring for which the finger has grown too large.
From Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
She sought for chains to gyve about her soul and, in her relationship with Traill, she fondly dreamed that she had found them.
From Sally Bishop A Romance by E. Temple (Ernest Temple) Thurston
Item, I gyve and bequeath unto her three sonnes, William Harte, ...
From The Facts About Shakespeare by William Allan Nielson
And it is the opynyon of moni men that an herod of armis may gyve armys.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
By God, with me it is all wrong, I have a pair of sore buttocks, All in irons was my song, Even now I sat gyved in a pair of stocks.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by William Carew Hazlitt
In half a dozen syllogisms he must have gyved and hand-cuffed himself into blank necessity and mechanic motions.
From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
To escape with a lifeless form gyved to his hand was out of the question.
From The Gray Phantom's Return by Herman Landon
With these fetters I gyved my own hands; Truly I became a much-deceived man.
From More Translations from the Chinese by Arthur Waley
He twisted his two gyved hands around and got one of them into his coat pocket.
From A Pagan of the Hills by Charles Neville Buck
To mourn in plasmic Temple's fold With gyving sod no King can shirk!
From Betelguese A Trip Through Hell by Jean de Esque
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