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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At 3 a.m., units of the Third Army's 87th Division crossed the Moselle in as sault boats.
From Time Magazine Archive
From Bunia, Hoare led an armada of three outboard as sault boats up Lake Albert and took the port of Mahagi with hardly a shot fired.
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
Television, which now lights up more than 200,000 screens, is a perennial as sault on Gaelic puritanism.
From Time Magazine Archive
We had scarce to eat a bitt of sault meat.
From Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson by Radisson, Pierre Esprit
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