Crossword-Solution: GYVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gyve | n. | A shackle; especially, one to confine the legs; a fetter. |
| Gyve | v. t. | To fetter; to shackle; to chain. H () the eighth letter of the English alphabet, is classed among the consonants, and is formed with the mouth organs in the same position as that of the succeeding vowel. It is used with certain consonants to form digraphs representing sounds which are not found in the alphabet, as sh, th, /, as in shall, thing, /ine (for zh see /274); also, to modify the sounds of some other letters, as when placed after c and p, with the former of which it represents a compound sound like that of tsh, as in charm (written also tch as in catch), with the latter, the sound of f, as in phase, phantom. In some words, mostly derived or introduced from foreign languages, h following c and g indicates that those consonants have the hard sound before e, i, and y, as in chemistry, chiromancy, chyle, Ghent, Ghibelline, etc.; in some others, ch has the sound of sh, as in chicane. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 153, 179, 181-3, 237-8. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “GYVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Shackle | 24 answers |
| fetter | 47 answers |
| chain | 48 answers |
| Iron | 49 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EAERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GYVE (5)
But when thou hast gripped him fast with hand and gyve, Then divers forms and bestial semblances Shall mock thy grasp; for sudden he will change To bristly boar, fell tigress, dragon scaled, And tawny-tufted lioness, or send forth A crackling sound of fire, and so shake of The fetters, or in showery drops anon Dissolve and vanish.
And still in the white neat bed I strive Most impotently against that gyve; Being less now than a thought, even, To you alone with your hills and heaven.
But the man, when his gyve spoke, spat and struck at Jack, and threw stones at him as he went away; so that his head was broken.
And even if I had, it would not prove that a man should wear a gyve on his right leg." And at this the appearance gobbled like a turkey.
Give me to right her wrong, and slay the man.” Then came Sir Kay, the seneschal, and cried, “A boon, Sir King! even that thou grant her none, This railer, that hath mocked thee in full hall— None; or the wholesome boon of gyve and gag.” But Arthur, “We sit King, to help the wronged Through all our realm.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1974–1983).