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puit

/pjuːt/

puit noun: a well; a small stream; a fountain; a spring.

Noun (1)

puit (plural puits)

  1. (obsolete) A well; a small stream; a fountain; a spring.
    • Further on is a puit or pit, bored in the last century, in search of salt; and then smaller reservoirs, with the blasting holes.1857, George Bradshaw, Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book to Switzerland and the Tyrol, page 37
    • And then a quarter of an hour later she would say, whilst explaining to a French party: “ There were 800 English and 200 French found at the bottom of the puit at the finish of that terrible day, mesdames et messieurs."1911, Clive Holland, The Belgians at Home, page 211

Noun (2)

puit (plural puits)

  1. An insectivorous shore bird, the brown-headed gull.
    • But these pirates are always successful, as are the rats, who steal at dead of night upon the eggs, devouring them; for your rat is a deadly enemy to the puit, and many another bird besides.1895, Peter Henry Emerson, Birds, Beasts and Fishes of the Norfolk Broadland, page 308

Forms of puit

pluralpuits
alternative formpuits

Origin of puit

Borrowed from French puits (“well”).

Words that rhyme with puit

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Questions about puit

What does puit mean?
Puit means a well; a small stream; a fountain; a spring.
What part of speech is puit?
Puit is a noun.
How do you pronounce puit?
Puit is pronounced /pjuːt/.
What is the plural of puit?
The plural of puit is puits.

Words near puit in the dictionary

  1. puissance
  2. puissances
  3. puissant
  4. puissantly
  5. puissantness
  6. puit
  7. puits
  8. PUJ
  9. puja
  10. pujah
  11. pujahs

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