Definition of "gave"
gave
verb
Quotations
I gaue thee Life, and rescu'd thee from Death.
1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)
(colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of give
Quotations
Well I suppose you will wonder what has happened to change my mind and if somebody has gave me a birthday present of $600.00 or something.
c. 1916, Ring W. Lardner, The Courtship of T. Dorgan; republished in George W. Hilton, The Annotated Baseball Stories of Ring W. Lardner, 1914-1919, Stanford University Press, 1995, page 297
Mr. Green. No; not to my recollection, Senator. I may have gave Frank Prince some for his wife, or something like that.
1951, “Influence in Government Procurement”, in Hearing before the Investigations Subcommittee of the Committee of Expenditures in the Executive Departments […] , U.S. Government Printing Office, page 678