But the old Gipsy word _chiv-av_ among its numerous meanings has exactly that of casting, throwing, pitching, and driving.

To _chiv_ in English Gipsy means as much and more than to _fix_ in America, in fact, it is applied to almost any kind of action.
It may be remarked in this connection, that in German or continental Gipsy, which represents the English in a great measure as it once was, and which is far more perfect as to grammar, we find different words, which in English have become blended into one.

Thus, _chib_ or _chiv_, a tongue, and _tschiwawa_ (or _chiv_-ava), to lay, place, lean, sow, sink, set upright, move, harness, cover up, are united in England into _chiv_, which embraces the whole.

"_Chiv it apre_" may be applied to throwing anything, to covering it up, to lifting it, to setting it, to pushing it, to circulating, and in fact to a very great number of similar verbs.
There is, I think, no rational connection between the BUNG of a barrel and an eye which has been closed by a blow.

One might as well get the simile from a knot in a tree or a cork in a flask.