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sault

American  
[soo] / su /

noun

  1. a waterfall or rapid.


sault British  
/ suː /

noun

  1. a waterfall or rapids

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of sault

1590–1600; < French; Old French saut < Latin saltus a leap. See salt 2

Example Sentences

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Television, which now lights up more than 200,000 screens, is a perennial as sault on Gaelic puritanism.

From Time Magazine Archive

As sault boats as well as Bailey bridges were used to cross swollen streams.

From Time Magazine Archive

Generalissimo Roosevelt tried a more tangible method of as sault.

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

The longue sault was probably the Meductic rapids twelve miles below the village of Medoctec, although it may have been the Grand Falls eighty miles above.

From Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 by Raymond, W. O. (William Odber)