gyve

POS

Noun, Verb (transitive)

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CIDE DICTIONARY

gyve, n. [Of Celtic origin; cf. W. gefyn, Ir. geibhionn, Gael. geimheal.].

A shackle; especially, one to confine the legs; a fetter. [1913 Webster]

"Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves." [1913 Webster]

"With gyves upon his wrist." [1913 Webster]

gyve, v. t.

To fetter; to shackle; to chain. Spenser. [1913 Webster]

"I will gyve thee in thine own courtship."

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ROGET THESAURUS

gyve

Prison

N prison, prison house, jail, gaol, cage, coop, den, cell, stronghold, fortress, keep, donjon, dungeon, Bastille, oubliette, bridewell, house of correction, hulks, tollbooth, panopticon, penitentiary, guardroom, lockup, hold, round house, watch house, station house, sponging house, station, house of detention, black hole, pen, fold, pound, inclosure, isolation (exclusion), penal settlement, penal colony, bilboes, stocks, limbo, quod, calaboose, chauki, choky, thana, workhouse, Newgate, Fleet, Marshalsea, King's Bench, Queen's Bench, bond, bandage, irons, pinion, gyve, fetter, shackle, trammel, manacle, handcuff, straight jacket, strait jacket, strait-jacket, strait-waistcoat, hopples, vice, vise, yoke, collar, halter, harness, muzzle, gag, bit, brake, curb, snaffle, bridle, rein, reins, bearing rein, martingale, leading string, tether, picket, band, guy, chain, cord, cavesson, hackamore, headstall, jaquima, lines, ribbons, bolt, deadbolt, bar, lock, police lock, combination lock, padlock, rail, wall, stone wall, paling, palisade, fence, picket fence, barbed wire fence, Cyclone fence, stockade fence, chain-link fence, barrier, barricade, drag.