Definition of "gyves" [gyves]

• Plural form of gyve. (noun)

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• "He kneeled beside the bed to fit the last key into the anklets, and the chains rang again their sharp, discordant peal as he opened the gyves and hoisted the irons aside, dropping the coil against the rock wall."
• "Too, the gyves, sturdy and snug, looked nice on them, both from the aesthetic point of view and from the point of view of their significance, for example, that they were mine and that the beauty, confined, wore them."
• "Take chains and gyves with thee: for if the flood side not to a calm, there is no hope"