DCHP-1 Online

sault ((n.)) (earlier) saut [< Cdn F, a 17th c. form, sault leap, jump; Mod. F saut] This old term occurs largely in place names nowadays.

• n. a waterfall or rapids.

  • This old term occurs largely in place names nowadays.

  • 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 . . . w^ch otherwise had kill them w^th their stings.
  • 1761  (1901)  . . . the Sault of Saint-Louis . . . is the highest of the saults, falls, or leaps, in this part of the Saint-Lawrence.
  • 1785  (1943)  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. . . .