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Godwit \God"wit\ (g[o^]d"w[i^]t), n. [Prob. from AS. g[=o]d good + wiht creature, wight.] (Zo["o]l.) One of several species of long-billed, wading birds of the genus Limosa, and family Tringid[ae]. The European black-tailed godwit ( Limosa limosa), the American marbled godwit ( Limosa fedoa), the Hudsonian godwit ( Limosa h[ae]mastica), and others, are valued as game birds. Called also godwin.

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Godwin, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina
Population (2000): 112
Housing Units (2000): 43
Land area (2000): 0.248783 sq. miles (0.644346 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.248783 sq. miles (0.644346 sq. km)
FIPS code: 26740
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.217714 N, 78.679778 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 28344
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Wikipedia
Godwin

Godwin is an Anglo-Saxon name. The name is nowadays most common - on a worldwide base - in Nigeria, Africa. It may refer to:

Godwin (bishop)

Godwin (or Godwine; died after 1017) was a medieval Bishop of Lichfield.

Godwin was consecrated between 1002 and 1004 and died after 1017.

Godwin (Korede Bello song)

"Godwin" is a song by Nigerian songwriter and singer Korede Bello. It was released on 28 January 2015 under Mavin Records, the record label he is signed to. The song features backup vocals from Don Jazzy.

Usage examples of "godwin".

Godwin sent messengers to the King, not threatening him but declaring his loyalty and craving the return of the earldoms that had been taken from him and Harold.

Clever…" Godwin was wistful for opportunity for a moment, then continued: "Petrunin had to alter the original database, when the central records computer was first fully programmed - back when they started computerising their entire records system.

Bernard Godwin, the Mall's eminence grise, has been our surrogate father, and like disputatious children we've been yelling ''Choose me!

In fact, she found Bernard Godwin altogether fascinating, but after the incident in the fugu restaurant when he had so effortlessly seen through her, she was careful not to let him know this.

Godwin had patiently stuck small pieces of address label on each of the letter and function keys.

Godwin tells Mitch that the foundation should become more involved in the case, and that if Mark gets up on the witness stand, he might be able to convince a jury that what the boys did wasn't enough to land anybody in jail.

Even to the inexperienced eyes of Godwin and Wulfgar it looked this time as if something was different: stronger wind, heavier sea, the grip of the inshore current dragging at the bottom.

Godwin unwrapped the tin from a polythene bag that contained its odours and knived chunks of it onto a yellow saucer.

He wished he could paint the way he felt and the way the morning looked as Officer Brazil drove him to George Wythe High School, where the Godwin marching band was waiting and warming up.

Undersides of the wall cupboards, just the right height for Godwin the cripple - twelve twenty-one - the stove, the pedal bin, dust and dead flies and a mummified spider on top of the wall cupboards.

I hinted broadly at seeking fingerprints which might lead to the identity of one who had entered the house unknown to the Godwins, and placed a document where private detectives would subsequently find it under suspicious circumstances.

Godwin, by his toilet training, was compelled to be early, but he never let himself arrive until precisely the proper moment.

Lieutenant Colonel Dean Godwin, who is rated, along with Sturmthal, as one of the top test pilots in the Air Force, stared at me as if I'd just produced a Vietcong watch fob.