gyve
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
verb
noun
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Etymology
Origin of gyve
1175–1225; Middle English give < ?
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That done, he grasped her hand and gyve it an "executive shake."
From Good Stories from the Ladies' Home Journal by Various
‘Yf it be so,’ than sayd our kynge, ‘It may no better be; Seven nyght I gyve thee leve, No lengre, to dwell fro me.’
From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Frank Sidgwick
God save you good life and honour gyve you God.
From An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly by Giles Du Wés
Item, I gyve and bequeath to my saied daughter Judith my broad silver gilt bole.
From The Facts About Shakespeare by William Allan Nielson
The alguazil fled, leaving me one leg free, the other burdened by the gyve, and as he fled so fled all others, being thus taken unawares.
From The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series by Rafael Sabatini
He twisted his two gyved hands around and got one of them into his coat pocket.
From A Pagan of the Hills by Charles Neville Buck
So gyved, lagged the hope of the independents to his task.
From The Henchman by Mark Lee Luther
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 Thomas Carlyle
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 William Carew Hazlitt
They are fettered and gyved by what they have said and done.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen by Elbert Hubbard
To mourn in plasmic Temple's fold With gyving sod no King can shirk!
From Betelguese A Trip Through Hell by Jean de Esque
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