gyve
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
verb
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of gyve
1175–1225; Middle English give < ?
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So soon as the child began to speak, the gyve was riveted; and the boys and girls limped about their play like convicts.
From Fables by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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 Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
Scarlok stode full stil and loughe, And sayd, ‘By God Almyght, Johnn may gyve hym gode mesure, For it costeth hym but lyght.’
From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Sidgwick, Frank
‘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 Sidgwick, Frank
For so it is, as now I clearly see, We let the animal within remain Unbroke, till neither gyve nor gear will serve To steady him, only a knock-down blow.
From Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. A Drama. and Other Poems. by Curzon, Sarah Anne
He twisted his two gyved hands around and got one of them into his coat pocket.
From A Pagan of the Hills by Buck, Charles Neville
With these fetters I gyved my own hands; Truly I became a much-deceived man.
From More Translations from the Chinese by Waley, Arthur
Bloom wound a skein round four forkfingers, stretched it, relaxed, and wound it round his troubled double, fourfold, in octave, gyved them fast.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
So gyved, lagged the hope of the independents to his task.
From The Henchman by Luther, Mark Lee
To escape with a lifeless form gyved to his hand was out of the question.
From The Gray Phantom's Return by Landon, Herman
To mourn in plasmic Temple's fold With gyving sod no King can shirk!
From Betelguese A Trip Through Hell by de Esque, Jean
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