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

That done, he grasped her hand and gyve it an "executive shake."

From Good Stories from the Ladies' Home Journal by Various

‘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

And I seide "the same � save you fro myschaunce, And gyve you grace on this grounde � goode men to worthe!"

From English Satires by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant

She obeyed, and I clasped the barbaric gyve about her wrist.

From A Daughter of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin

And it is the opynyon of moni men that an herod of armis may gyve armys.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony