The act of fastening or restraining someone with gyves (shackles); putting chains on a prisoner.
Present participle of 'gyve'. Used in medieval and historical contexts to describe the action of imprisoning or restraining with iron chains.
'Gyving' sounds almost gentle, but it meant the terrible process of locking someone in iron chains—sometimes the soft words describe the hardest truths!
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