gyve

(jīv) Archaic

A shackle or fetter, especially for the leg.

tr.v. gyved, gyv·ing, gyves

To shackle or fetter.

[From Middle English gives, gyves.]

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gyve

(dʒaɪv)

(tr) to shackle or fetter

(usually plural) fetters

[C13: of unknown origin]

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gyve

(dʒaɪv)

n., v. gyved, gyv•ing. Archaic. n.

1. a shackle.

v.t.

2. to shackle.

[1175–1225; Middle English give, of obscure orig.]

gyve

Past participle: gyved
Gerund: gyving

Imperative
gyve
gyve

Present
I gyve
you gyve
he/she/it gyves
we gyve
you gyve
they gyve

Preterite
I gyved
you gyved
he/she/it gyved
we gyved
you gyved
they gyved

Present Continuous
I am gyving
you are gyving
he/she/it is gyving
we are gyving
you are gyving
they are gyving

Present Perfect
I have gyved
you have gyved
he/she/it has gyved
we have gyved
you have gyved
they have gyved

Past Continuous
I was gyving
you were gyving
he/she/it was gyving
we were gyving
you were gyving
they were gyving

Past Perfect
I had gyved
you had gyved
he/she/it had gyved
we had gyved
you had gyved
they had gyved

Future
I will gyve
you will gyve
he/she/it will gyve
we will gyve
you will gyve
they will gyve

Future Perfect
I will have gyved
you will have gyved
he/she/it will have gyved
we will have gyved
you will have gyved
they will have gyved

Future Continuous
I will be gyving
you will be gyving
he/she/it will be gyving
we will be gyving
you will be gyving
they will be gyving

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been gyving
you have been gyving
he/she/it has been gyving
we have been gyving
you have been gyving
they have been gyving

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been gyving
you will have been gyving
he/she/it will have been gyving
we will have been gyving
you will have been gyving
they will have been gyving

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been gyving
you had been gyving
he/she/it had been gyving
we had been gyving
you had been gyving
they had been gyving

Conditional
I would gyve
you would gyve
he/she/it would gyve
we would gyve
you would gyve
they would gyve

Past Conditional
I would have gyved
you would have gyved
he/she/it would have gyved
we would have gyved
you would have gyved
they would have gyved

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gyve

noun

Archaic. Something that physically confines the legs or arms:

bond, chain (used in plural), fetter, handcuff (often used in plural), hobble, iron (used in plural), manacle, restraint, shackle.

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References in classic literature

Then came Raffles with soap and water, and the gyve was wheedled from one wrist, as you withdraw a ring for which the finger has grown too large.

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also "Haddok yn gyve" (Hieatt, Ordinance, number 176, p.

The Middle English cooking recipes in New York Public Library Whitney MS 1

A second letter by Lee to Wilson on 26 November 1609 continues the report: "many [Moors] to be already transported thence, and daylye continue theire transportation"; but "a great number of the mores in the kingdom of Grenada are revolted, and ffledd into the Mountains, wherein (yt ys supposed) yf they can holde out this winter, they will gyve troble to Spayne before they will be ?

The 1609 expulsion of the Moriscos in early modern British thought

It is introduced thus: And bycause ye Shall unto me Gyve credence at the full, Myn auctoryte Now shall ye se: Lo here the Popes bull!

The defence of religious orthodoxy in John Heywood's The Pardoner and the Frere