different between shackles vs gyve

English

Noun

shackles

1. plural of shackle

Verb

shackles

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of shackle

Scots

Noun

shackles

1. plural of shackle

Verb

shackles

1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of shackle

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