Gault
noun
the Lower Cretaceous clay formation in eastern England
Gault
1 British
/ ɡɔːlt /
noun
gault
2
British
/ ɡɔːlt /
noun
Etymology
Origin of gault
C16: of obscure origin
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Suddenly, Gault said in the documentary, “Guys don’t want to do the video.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
Dr Gault said any suggestions from the authority and minister that schools were unwilling to accommodate SEN children was "profoundly insulting".
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2025
Dr Gault said also some schools are unable to replace out-of-date ICT equipment.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2024
Robert Gault, 63, who depends on a $1,900 monthly Social Security disability payment, says an economic default “would make life so real awfully hard on me.”
From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2023
Supreme Court ruled in In re Gault that children under the age of eighteen have the right to legal assistance with any criminal charges filed against them.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Smith adopted for the most part English provincial terms, often of barbarous sound, such as gault, cornbrash, clunch clay; and affixed them to subdivisions of the British series.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
A four-inch bore is then made through the gault by means of a sort of Brobdingnagian cheese-taster, four or five feet long, screwed to an iron handle three times that length.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare
The belemnites are the internal shells of a sort of cuttle-fish which swam about in enormous numbers in the seas whose sediment forms our modern lias, oolite, and gault.
From Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Grant Allen
The materials are chalk and Medway mud; in a few works the latter is replaced by gault.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various
Again and again the taster is brought up, full of gault, and its contents or "core" thrown aside.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare
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