Skip to main content

gyve

/jahyv/US // dʒaɪv //UK // (dʒaɪv) archaic //

吉维

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Usually gyves. a shackle, especially for the leg; fetter.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    gyved, gyv·ing.

    • : to shackle.

Examples

  • So soon as the child began to speak, the gyve was riveted; and the boys and girls limped about their play like convicts.

  • I see the food to be wholesome,” said Jack; “and still it is no proof that a man should wear a gyve on his right leg.

  • God knows,” said Jack, “I fear your anger; but yet your anger does not prove that a man should wear a gyve on his right leg.

  • But the man, when his gyve spoke, spat and struck at Jack, and threw stones at him as he went away; so that his head was broken.

  • So he stooped and put the gyve in his bosom; and the rough iron galled him as he went, and his bosom bled.