teuchat

plural teuchats

1. alternativeAlternative form of tewit.

   And had I not come in past fields loud with teuchats calling? A house had a plaque mentioning that it was here Robert Louis Stevenson had stayed as an invalid in 1881, and written Treasure Island, which made his name.

   1980, Hamish M. Brown, Hamish's mountain walk: the first traverse, page 132

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   Sang would have stoned you out of his parks looking for teuchats’ eggs, or sent the dog at you, or he would have cheated your father out of a week's pay if he thought he could get away with it, especially if your father couldn't count money

   1982, David Toulmin, A Chiel Among Them: A Scots Miscellany, page 24

   The first oystercatchers trilled along the river; a couple of teuchats flapped their lazy dance in the cool spring air; high above a buzzard circled, screaming his cat-like cry; a couple of Dodd's new black lambs staggered beside their mother;

   2005, A Sense of Place: A Collection of New Scottish Writing, page 141