Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A waterfall or rapids.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A leap.
- n. An assault.
- To assault.
- n. A rapid in some rivers: as, the Sault Ste. Marie.
- A bad spelling of salt.
Wiktionary
- n. Assault. [13th-17th c.]
- n. A leap or jump, especially one made by a horse. [14th-18th c.]
- n. A waterfall; a rapid. [from 17th c.]
- n. jump
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A rapid in some rivers.
Etymologies
- Obsolete French, from Old French, leap, waterfall; see somersault.
Examples
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“To prove self-defense, Pease would have had to show that he feared death or serious bodily injury, so he ultimately pled guilty to misdemeanor as sault with a stun gun, he was fined and put on probation, and he had to take an anger management class.”
“Also have you seen the end of the baby boy video where you try to do that summer sault?”
“Up to this point the infantry-tank teams had worked with close coordination, due to a prearranged system of smoke signals, but the unexpected situations arising after the successful as - sault landing created some disruption in contact between in - fantry and tanks.”
Steel Victory
“You got tuh have uh weepon tuh commit uh 'sault. An' taint in no white folks law an taint in dis Bible dat no mule bone is no weapon.”
“I ain't book-learnt an 'I ain't rubbed de hair offen my head agin no college wall, but I know when uh' sault been committed.”
“During slavery time never heerd of a cullud man committing 'sault on a white woman.”
“Ain't there no law,' inquired Dick, pausing in his draught, 'for suing an old lady for' sault and batterhim? ”
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1
“I was with such a violent desire prickt forwarde, which I felt more and more to increase in a sault burning.”
“Stafford, is from Old Fr. sault, a wood, Lat. saltus.”
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