Also toyst. App. a dial. form of TEISTIE: see quot. 1893 s.v.
a. 1688. Wallace, Descr. Orkney (1693), 16. There are likewise many Toists and Lyres, both Sea Fowls, very fat and delicious to eat.
1744. Preston, in Phil. Trans., XLIII. 61. There are many sorts of Wild-fowl;… Solan Goose … Whaps, Toists,… Plovers, Scarfs, &c.
