gyve
English
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English *give, *gyve (found only in plural gives, gyves (“shackles; fetters”)). Of uncertain origin. Compare Welsh gefyn (“fetter, shackle”), Irish geibbionn (“fetters”), geimheal (“fetter, chain, shackle”).
The verb is from Middle English given, gyven (“to shackle”), from the noun.
Pronunciation
Noun
gyve (plural gyves)
- A shackle or fetter, especially for the leg.
- c. 1594 William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene 2,[1]
- […] I would have thee gone:
- And yet no further than a wanton’s bird;
- Who lets it hop a little from her hand,
- Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,
- And with a silk thread plucks it back again,
- So loving-jealous of his liberty.
- 1845, William Lloyd Garrison, “The Triumph of Freedom” in The Liberty Bell, Boston: Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair, p. 192,[2]
- With head and heart and hand I’ll strive
- To break the rod, and rend the gyve,—
- The spoiler of his prey deprive,—
- 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don’t Point That Thing at Me, New York: The Overlook Press, 2004, Chapter 15, p. 126,[3]
- Our gyves were removed and our possessions returned to us, except for my Banker’s Special.
- c. 1594 William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene 2,[1]
Verb
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- To shackle, fetter, chain.
- 1864, “A Fast-Day at Foxden”, in Atlantic Monthly Journal[4], HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2006:
- "Say, rather, to melt the iron links which gyve soul to body," said Clifton ...
Derived terms
Translations
shackle
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
gyve (present tense gyv, past tense gauv, past participle gove, present participle gyvande, imperative gyv)
- Alternative form of gyva
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