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Definition of Tewhit
1. n. The lapwing; -- called also teewheep.
Definition of Tewhit
1. Noun. (UK dialect) The lapwing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tewhit
1. teuchat [n -S] - See also: teuchat
Medical Definition of Tewhit
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Tewhit
Literary usage of Tewhit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dæmonologia: A Discourse on Witchcraft as it was Acted in the Family of Mr by Edward Fairfax (1882)
"She offered to feel the cat but could not. Then she said: " Art thou come tewhit ?
This is the great devil, the cat is next him, ..."
2. Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society by Philobiblon Society (Great Britain) (1859)
"This is the great Devil, the cat is next him, jj, and tewhit is next." Then came £
Wait's wife, whom fhe felt, and faid, " Thou art a woman. ..."
3. Provincial Names and Folk Lore of British Birds by Charles Swainson (1885)
"Hence the children's rhyme— " Pease weep, pease weep, Harry my nest and gar me
greet." tewhit or Tee-wheep (Kirkcudbright; Orkney Isles). Weep or Wype. ..."
4. Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopaedia of Universal Authorship by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon (1893)
"... but Thomas Hardie; or to use his own words, he was "just in the situation o'
a tewhit that has lost its mate—te-wheet! te-wheet! it cried, flapping its ..."
5. The Practice of medicine by Thomas Hawkes Tanner (1866)
"The springs of the tewhit and St. John's Well have almost the composition of pure
water, with the addition of a small quantity of carbonate of iron. ..."
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