pewit

I distinctly remembered firing it at a pewit an hour before, for Edmee had wanted to examine the bird's plumage.

On the 7th, we saw a curlieu and a pewit, and on the 9th we caught a land-bird, very much resembling a starling.

One of the first birds I saw, and one of the most puzzling, was the lapwing or pewit.

In his best days, as he records in one of his letters, it was said of him that he “tripped like a pewit.”

Now and then I caught the cry of a pewit, or saw a snipe glance up from his bed; but mainly I was busied about the mare.