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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But Gault said that the executive needed to make "urgent decisions to prioritise education and provide the funding necessary to protect children's futures".
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2026
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
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
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
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
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
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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