Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
ghat .
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Examples
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The stock also took a small beating in mid-2008, after Jobs' gaut appearance during a keynote at the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference sparked concerns that his cancer had returned.
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Adel Khan descended the gaut mountains with a powerful army to reduce the rebels, recovering possession of the Concan in a few days.
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Terry gives no reference as to situation; so that we may conjecture that Nagracutt may refer to Nucker-gaut, the passage of the Ganges through the Sewalick mountains, between Serinagur and Hindoostan.
chained_bear commented on the word gaut
"Gaut, a term made use of in the East Indies, to denote a passage or road from the coast to the mountains or upland country."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 165
October 14, 2008