saut

British  

/ sɔːt /

noun

1. a Scot word for salt

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Example Sentences

“We always said Tess had the best saut de chat in the company,” Jonathan Stafford, City Ballet’s artistic director, said of the large leap.

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2022

I'll away hame and hae a bannock and a saut herring to my denner by way o' auld style.

From BBC • Jun. 13, 2013

Spinning out a series of steps, he recited, "Pass�, chass�, saut de basque, heel, toe."

From Time Magazine Archive

The mony hardships I ha'e tholed Sin' I left Larocklea, I maun na tell, for it would bring The saut tear in thine e'e.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles

First, "le saut périlleux"—the somersault backwards—over and over again, at intervals of two or three minutes, so as to give himself time for thought and chuckles, while he smoked his pipe in silent stodgy jubilation.

From The Martian by Du Maurier, George