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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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
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
And still in the white neat bed I strive Most impotently against that gyve; Being less now than a thought, even, To you alone with your hills and heaven.
From The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke by Brooke, Rupert
‘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
Item, I gyve and bequeath to my saied daughter Judith my broad silver gilt bole.
From The Facts About Shakespeare by Nielson, William Allan
So many millions of persons, all gyved, and nigh strangled, with formulas; whose Life nevertheless, at least the digestion and hunger of it, was real enough!
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
"Prithee, good Motley," he questioned, "what should bring so rare a Fool to lie in dungeon fettered and gyved along of innocent rogues and roguish robber?"
From The Geste of Duke Jocelyn by Farnol, Jeffery
To the proud strong man it has come; whose strong hands shall no more be gyved; to whom boundless unconquered continents lie disclosed.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
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
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
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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