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puits

puits is the alternative form of puit.

puits is the plural of puit.

Meaning of puit

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

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 puits

pluralpuits

Questions about puits

What is puits the alternative form of?
Puits is the alternative form of puit.

Words near puits in the dictionary

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

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