teuchit

plural teuchits

1. alternativeAlternative form of tewit.

   He saw from the twigs on the ground that a gale had been blowing, and knew it would be the teuchit-storm on which the teuchit, or green plover, is blown home.

   1951, Nancy Brysson Morrison, The hidden fairing: a novel, page 203

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   There were the fields over which as a boy he had wandered to pluck the gowan or seek for teuchits’ nests ; there the long stretches of breezy heather, and the low- lying moss where he had helped to dig and wheel the peats[.]

   1899, Gavin Greig, Logie O'Buchan: An Aberdeenshire Pastoral of Last Century, page 184

   The new century brought my seventieth birthday, on which Gillian gave me a watercolour of a lapwing, or teuchit, with her chick by local artist Keith Brockie.

   2012, Robin Hull, Scottish Mammals, →ISBN