local. [From its note of alarm.] The name given in East Anglia, Essex, and Kent to a bird, the Redshank, Totanus calidris.
1859. Atkinson, Walks & Talks (1892), 300. A man went with a sailor to shoot teukes.
1892. Within an hour of Lond. (ed. 2), 256. The redshank, pool-snipe, teuke or took.
[1910. Westm. Gaz., 29 Jan., 11/1. The Redshank. The clear ‘teuk-teuk’ will break upon the stillness that reigns around, showing your deadly presence is detected.] Ibid. The ‘teuk,’ as they call the redshank in [the Essex marshes].
