"puit" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1857, George Bradshaw, Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book to Switzerland and the Tyrol, page 37:",
          "text": "Further on is a puit or pit, bored in the last century, in search of salt; and then smaller reservoirs, with the blasting holes.",
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          "ref": "1911, Clive Holland, The Belgians at Home, page 211:",
          "text": "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.\"",
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        {
          "ref": "1998, Karl Smith, The Atlas Mountains, page 105:",
          "text": "Cross the ravine, and a further 10 mins. across the plain see trees on the R. These trees mark the site of the puit ( well ) at El Mersse.",
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        "A well; a small stream; a fountain; a spring."
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        "(obsolete) A well; a small stream; a fountain; a spring."
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          "ref": "1895, Peter Henry Emerson, Birds, Beasts and Fishes of the Norfolk Broadland, page 308:",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Karl Smith, The Atlas Mountains, page 105:",
          "text": "Cross the ravine, and a further 10 mins. across the plain see trees on the R. These trees mark the site of the puit ( well ) at El Mersse.",
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        }
      ],
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