tewhit

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English

Noun

tewhit (plural tewhits)

Alternative form of tewit
- 1874, Charles Gibbon, In Honour Bound, volume 2, page 67:
  A fierce rasping noise broke harshly upon the clear atmosphere, mingled with sounds of voices in gossip and laughter; flocks of tewhits (lapwings), their white breasts glittering in the sunlight, swept overhead.
- 1899, Elizabeth S. MacQueen MacLeod, Carols of Canada (quoting ...?), page 141:
  Or sit in restful gloaming-tide,
  
  'Neath honeysuckle porch,
  
  And watch the tewhits winging low

References

“tewhit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

Hewitt, thwite

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