gyve
noun
Usually gyves. a shackle, especially for the leg; fetter.
ungyved
-
a word derived from
gyve.
Example Sentences
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What is so free, so untrammeled, so ungyved, so unconventional, as an Influenza Germ?
From Hermione's Group of Thinkers by Don Marquis
I envy him the ungyved prance With which his freezing feet he warms, And drag my lady's-chains and dance The galley-slave of dreary forms.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4 by Burton Egbert Stevenson
I envy him the ungyved prance With which his freezing feet he warms, And drag my lady's chains and dance The galley-slave of dreary forms.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell
Bloom ungyved his crisscrossed hands and with slack fingers plucked the slender catgut thong.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
I envy him the ungyved prance By which his freezing feet he warms, And drag my lady's chain and dance,— The galley-slave of dreary forms.
From Home Life of Great Authors by Hattie Tyng Griswold
