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Pewit   Listen
noun
Pewit  n.  (Zool.)
(a)
The lapwing.
(b)
The European black-headed, or laughing, gull (Xema ridibundus). See under Laughing.
(c)
The pewee. (Written also peevit, peewit, pewet)






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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



Words linked to "Pewit" :   flycatcher, blackcap, sea gull, genus Contopus, gull, Vanellus, Larus ridibundus, New World flycatcher, Contopus, Contopus sordidulus, plover, peewee, tyrant flycatcher, western wood pewee, pewit gull, peewit



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