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S vs Gyve - What's the difference?

s | gyve |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun gyve is

a shackle or fetter, especially for the leg.

As a verb gyve is

to shackle, fetter, chain.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    gyve

    English

    Alternative forms

    * give

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shackle or fetter, especially for the leg.
  • * Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
    • Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves
  • * 1973 , , Don't Point That Thing at Me , Penguin 2001, page 122
    • Our gyves were removed and our possessions returned to us, except for my Banker's Special.

    Verb

    (gyv)
  • to shackle, fetter, chain
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1864 , year_published=2006 , edition=HTML , editor= , author= , title=Atlantic Monthly Journal , chapter=A Fast-Day at Foxden citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage="Say, rather, to melt the iron links which gyve soul to body," said Clifton ... }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2008 , year_published= , edition= , editor=Sheri L. Vadermolen , author=LD Brodsky , title=The Complete Poems of Louis Daniel Brodsky: Volume Four, 1981-1985 , chapter=A Devotee of the Southern Way of Making Love citation , genre= , publisher=Time Being Books , isbn=9781568091242 , page=419 , passage=Gyved to a squeaky swivel seat in my office, … }}

    Derived terms

    * down-gyved