noun

• (countable) A hunt or pursuit; a chase.
  "The sergeants-major were always on the watch to report us if we went out of bounds. […] The moment we saw the sergeant-major, off we scampered over hedge, ditch, bog, and ploughed land, leaving him to catch or identify us if he could! […] Of all the serjeants-major, Howe, of the C company, ran the swiftest. Howe enjoyed these chivies. He frequently omitted to report us if we gave him a good breathing."
• (countable) A cry used in hunting.
• (uncountable) The game of prisoners' bars.

verb

• (transitive) To chase or hunt.
  "[…] John, before taking his departure, had left the stable door and the front gate open, and that Tartar [a horse], having no halter on, had quietly walked out into the high road, and had been chevied up and down by the boys for the last quarter of an hour."
• (transitive) To vex or harass with petty attacks.
  "St. John remains in the outer room, looks at the clock, […] chivies the tabby cat; counts the flitches of bacon hanging from the rafters; […]"
• (transitive) To maneuver or secure gradually.
• (transitive) Alternative spelling of chivvy.
  "He wos allus willin fur to give me somethink he wos, though Mrs. Sangsby she was allus a chivying on me—like everybody everywheres."

noun

• (informal) A vehicle of this make.
  "I saw a late-model Chevy pull around back. That would have been around 10 PM."