Gault
noun
the Lower Cretaceous clay formation in eastern England
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Gault
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/ ɡɔːlt /
noun
gault
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British
/ ɡɔːlt /
noun
Etymology
Origin of gault
C16: of obscure origin
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NAHT's Graham Gault said "school leaders have yet to experience any meaningful reduction in the huge pressures they face," while the NEU's Pauline Buchanan said "there has been insufficient progress on core matters".
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
Suddenly, Gault said in the documentary, “Guys don’t want to do the video.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
Dr Gault said also some schools are unable to replace out-of-date ICT equipment.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 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
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
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 Conybeare, Edward
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
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
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
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