Crossword clues for peewit
peewit
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lapwing \Lap"wing`\, n. [OE. lapwynke, leepwynke, AS. hle['a]pewince; hle['a]pan to leap, jump + (prob.) a word akin to AS. wincian to wink, E. wink, AS. wancol wavering; cf. G. wanken to stagger, waver. See Leap, and Wink.] (Zo["o]l.) A small European bird of the Plover family ( Vanellus cristatus, or Vanellus vanellus). It has long and broad wings, and is noted for its rapid, irregular fight, upwards, downwards, and in circles. Its back is coppery or greenish bronze. Its eggs are the ``plover's eggs'' of the London market, esteemed a delicacy. It is called also peewit, dastard plover, and wype. The gray lapwing is the Squatarola cinerea.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 any of several birds 2 # the lapwing or green plover 3 # the laughing gull 4 # the pewee or peewee n. 1 any of several birds 2 # the lapwing or green plover 3 # the laughing gull 4 # the pewee or peewee
WordNet
n. large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs [syn: lapwing, green plover, pewit]
small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America [syn: pewee, peewee, pewit, wood pewee, Contopus virens]
Usage examples of "peewit".
But when he standeth on his somewhat long legs, and thou seest that his under parts be white, why, even a Frenchman would know he was no pigeon, but must be the peewit or lapwing.
But it was the meadows and the open spaces that had been his kingdom, and his recollection was of a bare sunny land where whaup and peewit cried and the burns fell headlong from windy moors.
They had met, and included in their meeting the thrust of the manifold grass stems, the cry of the peewit, the wheel of the stars.
At least he can leave school affairs behind him when he goes home each evening to Peewit Cottage and his lovely wife, Christine, who is expecting their first child.
We had honeymooned in the Lake District and had returned to our dreamy Peewit Cottage in the village of Hawksrill in the Dales.
By the following Sunday, the small garden at the back of Peewit Cottage was transformed.
The nightmare scenario of my standing at the gate of Peewit Cottage facing a coach load of American Quakers who had come to see the famous historic building had faded like the bad dream that it was.
Christine when I limped through the door of Peewit Cottage later that evening.
Oyster, Peewit, Bee, Quail, Viper, Whale, Lobster, Toad, Polar Bear, Hare - and many more.
About them was a grassy down athwart which a peewit flew with its melancholy cry.
And I warrant thee we shall eat our fill of peewits if we remain here long.
She mounted steadily, and her spirit rode, as it were, before her, longing to get up there among the peewits and curlew, to feel the crisp, peaty earth slip away under her, and the wind drive in her face, under that deep blue sky.
Curlews and peewits filled the moor with their crying, and as he began to descend into the Rood glen a lark--the first he had heard--rose to heaven with a flood of song.
They did not often reach again the height of that once when the peewits had called.
As they got deeper into the moor, the loneliness increased: one could hear peewits and see an occasional hawk.