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Chevy   Listen
noun
Chevy  n.  (Written also chivy, and chivvy)  (Eng.)
1.
A cry used in hunting.
2.
A hunt; chase; pursuit.
3.
The game of prisoners' base. See Base, n., 24.





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"Chevy" Quotes from Famous Books



... his son's arm to sustain him, he argued garrulously for a sojourn at the nearest hostelry, or for a stop at Chevy Chase. He would, he promised, go to bed at the Club, and thus be rid of Bronson. Bronson didn't know his place, he would have ...
— The Tin Soldier • Temple Bailey
... only bell heard within the precincts of the old castle being the railway porter's bell announcing the arrival and departure of trains. You see the Scotch express pass along the bridge and speed southward on the wings of steam. But no alarm spreads along the border now. Northumbrian beeves are safe. Chevy-Chase and Otterburn are quiet sheep-pastures. The only men at arms on the battlements of Alnwick Castle are of stone. Bamborough Castle has become an asylum for shipwrecked mariners, and the Norman Keep at Newcastle has been converted into a Museum of Antiquities. The railway ...
— Lives of the Engineers - The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson • Samuel Smiles


Words linked to "Chevy" :   get at, molest, irritate, haze, plague, devil, harass, torment, harry, chivy, chivvy, frustrate, needle, gravel, bother, rag, provoke, beset, nark, hassle, rile, dun, nettle, chafe, get to


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