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Singular noun
1857, George Bradshaw, Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book to Switzerland and the Tyrol, page 37:Further on is a puits or pit, bored in the last century, in search of salt; and then smaller reservoirs, with the blasting holes.
1936, Sir James Edward Edmonds, Military Operations, France and Belgium, 1914, page 144:A similar command over the southern part of the battle zone was given by the combined wheelhouse of a fosse and a puits in Loos village, the standards of which were known as the Loos Pylons, or "Tower Bridge”, from their resemblance, at a distance, to that familiar London landmark.
1994, John Ernest Flower, Burgundy, page 74:The Puits is protected from the weather by a kind of greenhouse and there is a raised walkway around the statues.
2015, F. Loraine Petre, Major-General Sir H. Cecil Lowther, The Scots Guards in the Great War 1914-1918:The losses of the Scots Guards as they moved up the slope were terribly heavy from the machine-gun fire above mentioned, but they persistently carried on, and gained the Puits and the Keep.