sault
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of sault
1590–1600; < French; Old French saut < Latin saltus a leap. See salt 2
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At 3 a.m., units of the Third Army's 87th Division crossed the Moselle in 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
One of the Picchiannis landed expertly in a chair after a triple somer sault from a teeterboard.
From Time Magazine Archive
As sault boats as well as Bailey bridges were used to cross swollen streams.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many words pronounced with a broad were anciently written with au; as sault, mault; and we still say, fault, vault.
From A Grammar of the English Tongue by Samuel Johnson
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