gyve

American  

[jahyv] / dʒaɪv /

noun

1. Usually gyves. a shackle, especially for the leg; fetter.

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verb (used with object)

gyved, gyving

1. to shackle.

gyve British  

/ dʒaɪv /

verb

1. (tr) to shackle or fetter

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noun

1. (usually plural) fetters

Other Word Forms

• ungyved
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of gyve

1175–1225; Middle English give < ?

Example Sentences

And every yere I woll thee gyve Twenty marke to thy fee.’

From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Sidgwick, Frank

"Say, rather, to melt the iron links which gyve soul to body," said Clifton, in constrained articulation, through which a moaning undertone seemed ever trying to be heard.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 by Various

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

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)

His clothinge is full thynne; Ye must gyve the knight a lyveray, To lappe his body therein.

From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Sidgwick, Frank