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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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 Rupert Brooke
He afterwards proceeded into Connaught, where Conchobhar, son of Tadhg, came to meet him, "but no gyve or lock was put upon him."
From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack
In the early days Brown was hyphenated to Smith with a gyve.
From The Awful Australian by Valerie Desmond
So soon as the child began to speak, the gyve was riveted; and the boys and girls limped about their play like convicts.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI by Robert Louis Stevenson
So soon as the child began to speak, the gyve was riveted; and the boys and girls limped about their play like convicts.
From Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson
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 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
"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 Jeffery Farnol
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 escape with a lifeless form gyved to his hand was out of the question.
From The Gray Phantom's Return by Herman Landon
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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