Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Another spelling of
galt .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Geol.) A series of beds of clay and marl in the South of England, between the upper and lower greensand of the Cretaceous period.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A type of stiff, blue
clay , sometimes used for making bricks.
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Examples
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NinerFan says: gault: “I have a speech I will soon share with you about the irrationality of collectivism and offering my own philosophy as an alternative.”
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Listen, gault, many of us went though this adolescent nonsense before, when we were adolescents.
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Bill Corr, you are educated white male and you don't like three things gay, black and disable, what is wrong with you? if you are educated you would of think better way, when I read your post i only see racist old f*t white man, don't you know racism is dangerous and very old fashion? kevin gault
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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What is called a washing brick is now made in various colors, adapted for the lining of interiors, and there are hard bricks of a very pale straw color, known as Beart's patent bricks, made, I believe, of gault clay, which were some years ago bought up by the Great
Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 Various
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Adamantine clinkers, made of gault clay, are much used; they must have chamfered edges, otherwise they make too smooth a floor for a stable.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 Various
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On digging or boring below these, we ought to come upon the chalk, and below the chalk again, with its cretaceous congeners the greensand or the gault, we ought to meet the Weald clay and the Hastings sand.
Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873
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The belemnites are the internal shells of a sort of cuttle-fish which swam about in enormous numbers in the seas whose sediment forms our modern lias, oolite, and gault.
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873
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I know: but years ago it got the name from one green vein in it, in which the "Coprolites," as you learnt to call them at Cambridge, are found; and that, and a little layer of blue clay, called gault, between the upper
Madam How and Lady Why Charles Kingsley 1847
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Now this makes sence john gault wrote on Mar 5, 2009 9: 56 AM:
unknown title 2009
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"Steve from Chesterfield, john gault and 250 have got it right.
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