weyve

English

Verb

1. Obsolete form of weave.
2. Obsolete form of waive.

Noun

weyve (plural weyves)

1. (obsolete) a female outlaw
   • 1958 T.H. White, The Once and Future King, p.107

     "She was a true Weyve - except for her long hair, which most of the female outlaws in those days used to clip."

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “weyve”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman waif.

Noun

weyve

1. Alternative form of weif

Etymology 2

From Anglo-Norman weyver.

Verb

weyve

1. Alternative form of weyven (“to avoid”)
   • c.1386 Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Tale, line 1176.

     "To lyven vertuously and weyve synne"

Etymology 3

From Old Norse veifa.

Verb

weyve

1. Alternative form of weyven (“to wave”)