gyve
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English [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Of Celtic origin; liken Welsh gefyn (“fetter,shackle”), Irish geibbionn (“fetters”), Gaelic geimheal (“fetter, chain, shackle”)
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /dʒaɪv/, /ɡaɪv/
Noun [edit]
gyve (plural gyves)
- A shackle or fetter, especially for the leg.
- Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
- Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves
- 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin 2001, page 122
- Our gyves were removed and our possessions returned to us, except for my Banker's Special.
- Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Verb [edit]
gyve (third-person singular simple present gyves, present participle gyving, simple past and past participle gyved)
- to shackle, fetter, chain
- 1864, “A Fast-Day at Foxden”, in Atlantic Monthly Journal[1], edition HTML, The Gutenberg Project, published 2006:
- "Say, rather, to melt the iron links which gyve soul to body," said Clifton ...
- 2008, LD Brodsky, “A Devotee of the Southern Way of Making Love”, in Sheri L. Vadermolen editor, The Complete Poems of Louis Daniel Brodsky: Volume Four, 1981-1985[2], Time Being Books, ISBN 9781568091242, page 419:
- Gyved to a squeaky swivel seat in my office, …
- 1864, “A Fast-Day at Foxden”, in Atlantic Monthly Journal[1], edition HTML, The Gutenberg Project, published 2006:
