What is "chivy"

Usage examples of "chivy".

He contemplated the harried figure ahead of him, dragging one whining child along the crowded street, chivying the others in front of her like a demented sheepdog, rattails of hair escaping from her bonnet.

But he does not stay to feed the pen chivying her game of cygnets towards the rushes.

The tail of it, where Garric gently chivied the complaining ewes, was still visible on the slope.

Kayla chivied the others into it while she filled Hosea in on the events of the day.

Other skiffs attended these, chivying them on, blocking any breaks toward the north.

Finally he raised the liver-spotted hand to the faceplate of his helmet and gave it a kiss through the plastic, then allowed himself to be chivied to the sidelines.

Then he chivied one about the floor, lining it up with the open mouth of the fireplace, and whacked it with the end of the club as if he were playing golf.

Looking out through the ports he saw that the last members of the shore parties were almost at the foot of the ramp, with Sergeant Washington and his Marines chivying them like sheepdogs.

Here groups of young men, with chivalrous idealism, were jeering at and chivying the broken remnants of a suffrage meeting.

He began counting the flock into the paddock aloud rather than using a physical tally as Cashel, chivying the flock from the rear, would have had to do.

I'm going where I won't be chivied about and pointed at, like what I am here.

Eventually four riders in the local lord's warband, wearing fox blazons on their shirts, came in to drink and chivy the serving lass.

She shrieks, yells, sings, chivies the servant, and skims plates out of the window at the passers-by.

Scan ran beside Maud, the red leader dog, urging her to her best pace, chivying Bunny down steep inclines when she would have taken safer routes.

Outside the entrance to the Great Hall, two young lordlings were chivying a third about a girl whom he dared not speak to.