puit /pjuːt/ noun2 •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 •(no longer used) 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 formspuits
