sault
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of sault
1590–1600; < French; Old French saut < Latin saltus a leap. See salt 2
Example Sentences
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One of the Picchiannis landed expertly in a chair after a triple somer sault from a teeterboard.
From Time Magazine Archive
At 3 a.m., units of the Third Army's 87th Division crossed the Moselle in as sault boats.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a combined American-Vietnamese sweep called Coronado II, four battalions from the 9th and 25th Divisions were helilifted into the area; two others swarmed ashore from river as sault boats.
From Time Magazine Archive
Television, which now lights up more than 200,000 screens, is a perennial as sault on Gaelic puritanism.
From Time Magazine Archive
We passed a sault that falls from a vast height.
From Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson by Radisson, Pierre Esprit
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