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 Graham Gault, from National Association of Head Teachers Northern Ireland, demanded urgent talks to ensure the "last-minute scramble" for places was not repeated.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 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
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
Mr. Gault, whose sheep flock we took over when he disappeared two winters ago, only tried to disappear.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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
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 Edric Holmes
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
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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