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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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
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
"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
Scarlok stode full stil and loughe, And sayd, ‘By God Almyght, Johnn may gyve hym gode mesure, For it costeth hym but lyght.’
From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Frank Sidgwick
Item, I gyve unto my wief my second best bed with the furniture.
From The Facts About Shakespeare by William Allan Nielson
With these fetters I gyved my own hands; Truly I became a much-deceived man.
From More Translations from the Chinese by Arthur Waley
To escape with a lifeless form gyved to his hand was out of the question.
From The Gray Phantom's Return by Herman Landon
"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
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
In half a dozen syllogisms he must have gyved and hand-cuffed himself into blank necessity and mechanic motions.
From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
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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