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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anc. Armor) The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder.
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Examples
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Herzogin Camille ist verzweifelt: Ihr grausamer Ehemann will sie umbringen, damit er sich eine junge, gefügige Frau suchen kann, die ihm endlich einen Erben schenkt.
German edition of The Duchess, Her Maid, The Groom and Their Lover Victoria Janssen 2010
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These laws, together with their revision of 718, the Yr Code (not enforced until 757), have come down to us only through later legal commentaries, Ry no gige (833) and Ry no shge (920).
646-784 2001
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"He said gige him another half hour: He'll call yOU."
Blood Test Kellerman, Jonathan 1986
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a strap called guige or gige, a Norman custom of great antiquity.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) John Roby 1821
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