Obsolete name of a bird: the Tit, Titlark, or Meadow Pipit. [So called from its short and feeble note: cf. CHIT v.2 and CHEET v.]
1610. W. Folkingham, Art of Survey, IV. iii. 83. May-Chit, Spawe, Churre, Peeper,… Sea and Land Larkes.
1611. Cotgr., Alouette de pré, the chit, or small meddow-larke.
c. 1668. Sir T. Browne, Wks. (1852), III. 507. The … May chit is a little dark grey bird.
