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
"We have heard directly from school leaders across Northern Ireland who have said 'no', not from unwillingness, but from real and urgent concerns," Dr Gault said.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2025
Graham Gault, from the National Association of Headteachers, said hundreds of pupils could not attend school on Friday as a result of the strike.
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2023
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
One man, George W. Gage, purchased the Gault House, the only large hotel left on the West Side, and began to furnish it.
From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy
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
Between the chalk and the gault clay is a very narrow band of upper greensand, only occasionally noticeable in the southern range, but strongly marked in the North Downs.
From Seaward Sussex The South Downs from End to End by Edric Holmes
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
Adamantine clinkers, made of gault clay, are much used; they must have chamfered edges, otherwise they make too smooth a floor for a stable.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 by Various
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
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