different between gyve vs manacle

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)

1. (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.

Verb

gyve (third-person singular simple present gyves, present participle gyving, simple past and past participle gyved)

1. 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)

1. Alternative form of gyva

English

Etymology

The noun is derived from Middle English manacle, manakelle, manakil, manakyll, manicle, manikil, manycle, manykil, manykle, from Anglo-Norman manicle, manichle (“gauntlet; handle of a plough; (in plural) manacles”), and Middle French manicle, Old French manicle (“armlet; gauntlet; (in plural) manacles”) (modern French manicle, manique (“gauntlet”)), from Latin manicula (“handle of a plough; manacle”), from manus (“hand”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh?- (“to beckon, signal”)) + -cula (from -culus, variant of -ulus (suffix forming diminutive nouns)).

The verb is probably derived from the noun, although according to the Oxford English Dictionary it is attested slightly earlier.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?mæn?k(?)l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?mæn?k?l/
• Hyphenation: ma?na?cle

Noun

manacle (plural manacles)

1. A shackle for the wrist, usually consisting of a pair of joined rings; a handcuff; (by extension) a similar device put around an ankle to restrict free movement.
2. (figuratively) A fetter, a restriction.

Usage notes

Often used in the plural form manacles, and as such a plurale tantum.

Derived terms

• manaclelike

Translations

Verb

manacle (third-person singular simple present manacles, present participle manacling, simple past and past participle manacled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To confine with manacles.

Translations

References

Further reading

• handcuffs on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Alcmena, MacLean, Maclean, laceman