tewit

Echoic, from the bird's cry.[1][2]

tewit (plural tewits)

1. (Northern England, Scotland) A lapwing, Vanellus cristatus.[1][2]
   • 1866, Edward Peacock, English Church Furniture, Ornaments and Decorations, page 226:

     The crest was a tewit's head and neck erased or.

   • 2005, Birds Britannica, page 204:

     My father and uncle searched for a tewit's nest and brought home two eggs which were beaten with milk and sugar for me to eat raw.

   • 2008, Peter Robinson, All the Colours of Darkness, →ISBN, page 151:

     Once in a while, Banks or Sophia would approach too close to a tewit's ground nest, and the birds would start to panic, twittering and flying nervously back and forth, defending their territory.

• lapwing[1][2]

• Witte, twite