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English
Etymology
From down (“from a higher position to a lower one”) + gyved (“to shackle, fetter, chain”). A Shakespearan coinage.
Adjective
down-gyved (not comparable)
- (poetic, obsolete) Hanging down, like gyves or fetters.
c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , line 77:his stockings fouled, / Ungartered and down-gyved to his ankle,
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