Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The strap of a shield, by which it is supported over the shoulder, and by which it can be hung up when not in use. Also gig, gigue.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See gige.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A strap attached to a shield, used to hang the shield over the shoulder or from the neck.

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Examples

  • a strap called guige or gige, a Norman custom of great antiquity.

    Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) John Roby 1821

  • Ages, or among the Iroquois and Algonquins, make men dispense with corslets, even when the shield was worn, as in Homer, slung round the neck by a _telamon_ (_guige_ in Old French), belt, or baldric.

    Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

  • He taketh the guige from his neck and would have given him the shield, when the damsel afoot: "Hold, sir knight, you that are named Messire

    The High History of the Holy Graal Anonymous 1869

  • 'T.S. «f enabling the Society t (J coitipleit a A private board was thii day held at vcrlion i»f the Bible in the Malabar Ian - the Ti-earury, for the purpofe of examin - guige, for the ule of the natives of India. ing the anfwer to the circular letter, writ -

    The Edinburgh magazine, or Literary miscellany 1787

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