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Pewit

noun
1.
Small black-headed European gull.  Synonyms: blackcap, Larus ridibundus, laughing gull, pewit gull.
2.
Large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs.  Synonyms: green plover, lapwing, peewit.
3.
Small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America.  Synonyms: Contopus virens, peewee, peewit, pewee, wood pewee.



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"Pewit" Quotes from Famous Books



... nest. What an ingenious construction it was—long and deep and pointed, woven between the reeds, and so firmly fixed and of such a shape that the eggs could not be shaken out, even by the roughest of winds. Marjory was very anxious that Blanche should see a pewit's nest. There were always a certain number of these birds about the moors, and the girls spent a whole morning searching for a nest. But these birds hide their nests so carefully that they are most difficult to find. After much patience and walking up and down over the same ground, causing ...
— Hunter's Marjory - A Story for Girls • Margaret Bruce Clarke


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