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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



... part which treasures up their sense is asleep. For one more moment I was uncertain; I wondered if my gun could have gone off in my hands just as I was leaving Edmee. I distinctly remembered firing it at a pewit an hour before, for Edmee had wanted to examine the bird's plumage. Further, when I heard the shot which had hit her, my gun was in my hands, and I had not thrown it down until a few seconds later, so it could not ...
— Mauprat • George Sand



Words linked to "Pewit" :   gull, green plover, laughing gull, Vanellus, lapwing, Contopus, Larus, Contopus virens, genus Contopus, plover, western wood pewee, pewee, peewit, wood pewee, sea gull, peewee, genus Larus, seagull, New World flycatcher, pewit gull



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