Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An inclosure surrounding a well to prevent persons from falling into it; a well-curb.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arch.) An inclosure surrounding a well to prevent persons from falling into it; a well curb.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun architecture An
enclosure around awell to prevent people from falling into it.
Etymologies
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Latin, from puteus well.
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Examples
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This is an extreme case; it is perhaps fairer to quote lines such as si puteal multa cautus vibice flagellas (iv.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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