Chaucer's Works, Volume 6 — Introduction, Glossary, and Indexes

by Geoffrey Chaucer

Gest, s. guest, 5106.

Geten, pp. gotten, 5701; Gete, pp. 1771.

Geting, s. obtaining, attainment, 3284.

Gibbe, Gib (Gilbert), a name for a cat, C 6204.

Ginne, s. warlike engine, 4176.

Ginneth, pr. s. begins, 2154.

Ginning, s. beginning, 4332, 4670.

Girdil, s. girdle, 3719.

Gisarme, s. a weapon bearing a scythe-like blade fixed on a shaft and provided also with a spear-point like a bayonet, C 5978. See the drawing in Fairholt's Costume in England, i. 216. O.F. guisarme.