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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As sault boats as well as Bailey bridges were used to cross swollen streams.
From Time Magazine Archive
At 3 a.m., units of the Third Army's 87th Division crossed the Moselle in as sault boats.
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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.
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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
Now seeing that the Christinos had hattchetts & knives, for that they resolved to make peace with those of the sault, that durst not have gon hundred of leagues uppon that upper lake with assurance.
From Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson by Radisson, Pierre Esprit
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