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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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
At 3 a.m., units of the Third Army's 87th Division crossed the Moselle in as sault boats.
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
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)
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