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sault ((n.))
[< Cdn F, a 17th c. form, sault leap, jump; Mod. F saut]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:(earlier) saut
This old term occurs largely in place names nowadays.
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a waterfall or rapids.
This old term occurs largely in place names nowadays.
Quotations
1600
The Captaine prepared two boats to goe vp the great River to discouer the passage of the three Saults or falles.
1665
Being come nigh the Sault, we found a place where 2 of these men sweated, & for want of covers buried themselves in the sand by the water side to keepe their bodyes from the flyes . . . wch otherwise had kill them wth their stings.
1761
. . . the Sault of Saint-Louis . . . is the highest of the saults, falls, or leaps, in this part of the Saint-Lawrence.
1785
Boats are often lost in these dreadful rapids of the Long Saut.
1836
. . . Mr. Ralph Lowe, while shad-fishing . . . at the head of the long Sault, overreached his stroke, and pitched headlong into the rapids.
1922
The rugged granites over which the Mattagami breaks, long "saults," smoking falls, and canyon-slots through the hills, give way about halfway down to a vast muskeg plain. . . .
1953
[For the sake of speed they were constantly taking white-water sautes which looked like suicide. . . .]
1958
Stopped by a sault in their upward progress, the missionaries returned. . . .