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gyle
English
Alternative forms
- guile
Etymology
From Dutch gijl, from gijlen (“to ferment”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a?l/
- Rhymes: -a?l
Noun
gyle (countable and uncountable, plural gyles)
- The amount of beer brewed at a time.
- 1790, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana, 7 October:
- Perkins told me Yesterday that his Guile of Beer had a Summer-head on't, like as one sees in the last Weeks of Brewing in a forward Spring:—The Phænomenon surprized him I find.
- 1790, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana, 7 October:
- Fermented wort used for making vinegar.
Derived terms
- gyle tan
- parti-gyle
Anagrams
- gley
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gyve
English
Alternative forms
- give
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 modern pronunciation with /d?/ is due to the spelling.
The verb is from Middle English given, gyven (“to shackle”), from the noun.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?a?v/, /?a?v/
- Rhymes: -a?v
- Homophone: jive
Noun
gyve (plural gyves)
- (literary) 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
gyve (third-person singular simple present gyves, present participle gyving, simple past and past participle gyved)
- To shackle, fetter, chain.
Derived terms
- down-gyved
Translations
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
gyve (present tense gyv, past tense gauv, supine gove, past participle goven, present participle gyvande, imperative gyv)
- Alternative form of gyva
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