Until the 1950s, inlet pipes for each spring were decorated with lead sculptures including a fox, hare, swan and peewit.
The peewit, as you saw, makes scarcely any nest, merely a hollow in the ground, with, perhaps, a few dried grasses.— Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children
You know how cunning the peewit is in trying to lead people away from its nest or young ones.— Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children
It always came back, "returning like the peewit," at uncertain intervals.— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 31, 1892
The peewit was dead He pivoted upon his shanks and examined the nest.— The Way of the Wild
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