"tewhit" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1874, Charles Gibbon, In Honour Bound, volume 2, page 67",
          "text": "A fierce rasping noise broke harshly upon the clear atmosphere, mingled with sounds of voices in gossip and laughter; flocks of tewhits (lapwings), their white breasts glittering in the sunlight, swept overhead.",
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          "ref": "1899, Elizabeth S. MacQueen MacLeod, Carols of Canada (quoting ...?), page 141",
          "text": "Or sit in restful gloaming-tide,\n'Neath honeysuckle porch,\nAnd watch the tewhits winging low"
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "text": "Or sit in restful gloaming-tide,\n'Neath honeysuckle porch,\nAnd watch the tewhits winging low"
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