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Meanings of pewit in English
Spanish
contopus Small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America.
Catalan
gavina riallera Synonyms
Examples for "blackcap"
Examples for "blackcap"
1
From a verbena hard by came the liquid song of a blackcap.
2
The songs of chiffchaff, blackcap and crickets play out with distant skylarks.
3
The most musical singer we heard was the blackcap warbler.
4
A few years ago a blackcap joined the throng, at first an interesting, rare visitor.
5
Is the blackcap extending its range, or was it simply blown here by gale-force winds?
1
Far away was heard the lonely cry of a laughing gull.
2
Puffin, Leach's petrel, eider duck, laughing gull, great blue heron, fish-hawk and bald eagle.-(Arthur H. Norton, Portland.)
3
His wild, laughing cry has given him the nickname of Laughing Gull.
Portuguese
quero-quero Usage of pewit in English
1
Remember the pewit call if we lose sight of each other.
2
She puckered her lips and gave the pewit call, but there was no answer.
3
If you see a man, keep still in your places and give the pewit call.
4
I, too, heard the pewit's plaint in my childhood and caught the sun-fish in the brook.
5
He gave the pewit's call and waited.
6
I'll have a sprig of the evergreen pine and give the pewit call, and then you'll be sure.
7
Hinpoha listened to his disgruntled "pewit phoebe, pewit phoebe," and made haste to throw him some crumbs.
8
I distinctly remembered firing it at a pewit an hour before, for Edmee had wanted to examine the bird's plumage.
9
It is unmistakably spring, because the pewit bushes are budding and on yonder aspen we can hear a forsythia bursting into song.
10
The next morning, as she was finishing the beds, Jean heard the pewit call and at once knew that the Clan was abroad.
11
The pewit is universal on the hills, but will inevitably be driven away from all that portion of Salisbury Plain used for military purposes.
12
Hence stork and swallow are the friends of man, while the pewit dwells in exile, fleeing ever from his presence with its lonesome cry.
13
The characteristic species of this part of the down country, comprising the parish of Winterbourne Bishop, are the pewit, magpie, turtledove, mistle-thrush, and starling.
14
On the 7th, we saw a curlieu and a pewit, and on the 9th we caught a land-bird, very much resembling a starling.
15
Pewit, the lapwing, a species of plover.
16
What can a man know who lives all his life on a hill with pewits for gossips?
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Pewit through the time