Definition of "lapwings" [lapwings]

• Plural form of lapwing. (noun)

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• "So farmland birds such as lapwings and skylarks, along with other small birds such as thrushes and finches, fled to the milder areas of the south-west, with many continuing across the sea to France."
• "This lonely domain is a very agreeable haunt for many sorts of wild fowls, which not only frequent it in the winter, but breed there in the summer: such as lapwings, snipes, wild ducks, and, as I have discovered within these few years, teals."
• "This, perhaps, was the most ancient form of Osiris; but they also represented him as a man, and supposed him to assume the shapes of rams and bulls, [*] or even those of water-birds, such as lapwings, herons, and cranes, which disported themselves about the lakes of that district. ["