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gyves
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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Gyvesnoun
Fetters; chains for the legs.
Etymology: gevyn, Welsh.
The villains march wide betwixt the legs, as if they had gyves on. William Shakespeare, Henry IV. p. i.
And knowing this, should I yet stay,
Like such as blow away their lives,
And never will redeem a day,
Enamour’d of their golden gyves? Ben Jonson, Forest.The poor prisoners, ready to take the occasion offered, boldly starting up, break off their chains and gyves. Richard Knolles.
Do’st thou already single me? I thought
Gyves and the mill had tam’d thee. John Milton, Agonistes.But Telamon rush’d in, and hap’d to meet
A rising root, that held his fasten’d feet;
So down he fell, whom sprawling on the ground,
His brother from the wooden gyves unbound. John Dryden, Fables.
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
gyves
Fetters; the old word for handcuffs.
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
gyves
Fetters; old word for handcuffs.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of gyves in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of gyves in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
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