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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Dr Graham Gault, from the National Association of Head Teachers, said it will "take a generation" to solve problems facing the sector.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2024
George Carlin fans have expressed disgust with the content itself, too: Vice’s Matthew Gault, a self-described longtime fan of the comic, described the special as “worse than you could possibly imagine.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2024
Gault, who lives in Bradford, Pennsylvania, near that state’s border with New York, said he thinks about the debate — and the stalemate — in Washington a lot.
From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2023
At the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, he became the first English athlete in 24 years to win four golds at a single Games since shooter Mick Gault.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 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
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 Conybeare, Edward
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
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 Lyell, Charles, Sir
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
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 Holmes, Edric
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