Chevy
['tʃɛvi]
Definition
(v. t.) See Chivy, v. t.
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Definition
n. a hunting cry.—v.t. to chase.—v.i. to scamper.
n. a cry shout: a hunt.—v.t. to chase.
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Examples
- It is like 'Chevy Chase,' said Maurice quickly, and stirs the heart like the sound of a trumpet. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- On the contrary, it seemed rather a piquant thing to us to chevy him about the playground and hit him over the shins with a wicket. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- How in the world had they got from cog-wheels to Chevy Chace? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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