Usually means: Shackle for securing prisoner's feet.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. gyve: Merriam-Webster
  2. gyve: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gyve: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gyve: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gyve: Wordnik
  6. gyve: Wiktionary
  7. gyve: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. gyve: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Gyve, gyve: Dictionary.com
  10. Gyve: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. gyve: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Gyve: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. gyve: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. gyve: FreeDictionary.org
  15. gyve: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. gyve: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gyve: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. GYVE: Acronym Finder
  2. gyve: A Word A Day
  3. gyve: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gyve: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Gyve: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

Definitions from Wiktionary (gyve)

noun:  (literary) A shackle or fetter, especially for the leg.
verb:  To shackle, fetter, chain.

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