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toist|tɔɪst| Also toyst. App. a dial. form of teistie: see quot. 1893 s.v.
a1688Wallace Descr. Orkney (1693) 16 There are like⁓wise many Toists and Lyres, both Sea Fowls, very fat and delicious to eat. 1744Preston in Phil. Trans. XLIII. 61 There are many Sorts of Wilk-fowl;..Solan Goose,..Whaps, Toists,..Plovers, Scarfs, &c. |