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Hamlet vocabulary
40 archaic vocabulary words
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gyve
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synonyms: fetter, bilbo ???
tags: [archaic]
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Definition:a leg shackle
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also spelled ghiwes, gius (and probably other variations)
The word is confounded with obsolete spelling of the unrelated English word "give"
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He was..Ase A sclaue forth i-lad and i-don In prisone, And faste was i-gwiued.
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Convert his gyves to graces;
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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