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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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
The brede yt I shall gyve / my body it is / for the lyf of the worlde.
From A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men by Betson, Thomas
She obeyed, and I clasped the barbaric gyve about her wrist.
From A Daughter of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin
Here was obviously the Junius of democracy, for whom the only effective answer was the gag and gyve.
From William Pitt and the Great War by Rose, John Holland
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 Thurston, E. Temple (Ernest Temple)
So gyved, lagged the hope of the independents to his task.
From The Henchman by Luther, Mark Lee
By Romulus, he is all soul, I think; He hath no flesh, and spirit cannot be gyved; Then we have vanquished nothing; he is free, And Martius walks now in captivity.
From Essays — First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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
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 Hazlitt, William Carew
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
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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