adjective
- shackled or bound with gyves (chains or fetters)
Usage: literary; archaic
verb
- past tense and past participle of gyve; to put gyves (chains or shackles) on someone
Usage: literary; archaic
Examples
- The prisoner was gyved and thrown into the dungeon.
- She felt gyved by the constraints of her rigid upbringing.
- The guards gyved the captives before the long march.
- His spirit remained unbroken despite being gyved.
- The slaves were gyved together in a chain gang.
- He gyved his enemy to prevent escape.