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/pˈiːwɪt/
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NOUN
- small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America
- large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs
How To Use peewit In A Sentence
- The down was desolate, east and west, north and south; the road with its shallow ditches and white bordering stakes, ran smooth and empty north and south, and, save for that peewit, the blue sky was empty too. The Invisible Man
- And when these had vanished in the distance Graham heard a peewit wailing close at hand. When the Sleeper Wakes
- There was a peewit somewhere over to the south-east, and the birch leaves made a soft sussurration behind him. A DEATH IN TIME
- As our peewit takes its name from the sound of its voice, so does the teru-tero. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
- Invisible larks poured trills over the velvety green fields and the ice-covered stubble, the peewit wept over the hollows and marshes still filled with brown water; high up the cranes and geese flew with their spring honking. Tolstoy III: Invisible Larks
- Peewit is in fact another common name for lapwings. Times, Sunday Times
- The cries of the curlew and peewit, the honey-pale orb of the moon Under The Moon
- She said the lapwing (or peewit) is also under pressure with its numbers being reduced by 40 per cent over the past 40 years.
- Lapwings, also known as peewits due to their distinctive call, have white and greeny-black plumage topped by an elegant crest.
- George tripped along the tape like a peewit, never straying from the white. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY