"gault" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Of local origin, used by quarrymen and brickmakers to refer to the type of soil. First attested in writing as \"golt\" in 1815 (William Smith) and \"gault\" in 1816 (J Hailstone).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gaults",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "gault (countable and uncountable, plural gaults)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
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          "name": "Terms with Welsh translations",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1901, Charles Kingsley, Two Years Ago, Volume I:",
          "text": "As he spoke, they turned off the main line of the rolling clays toward the foot of the chalk hills, and began to brush through short cuttings of blue gault and \"green sand,\" so called by geologists, because its usual colours are bright brown, snow-white, and crimson.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of stiff, blue clay, sometimes used for making bricks."
      ],
      "id": "en-gault-en-noun-Pg6sikHw",
      "links": [
        [
          "clay",
          "clay"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "type of stiff, blue clay",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "cleidir"
        },
        {
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "type of stiff, blue clay",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "cleifarl"
        },
        {
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "type of stiff, blue clay",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "marl"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Gault Clay"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gault"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Of local origin, used by quarrymen and brickmakers to refer to the type of soil. First attested in writing as \"golt\" in 1815 (William Smith) and \"gault\" in 1816 (J Hailstone).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gaults",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "gault (countable and uncountable, plural gaults)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
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        "Terms with Welsh translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1901, Charles Kingsley, Two Years Ago, Volume I:",
          "text": "As he spoke, they turned off the main line of the rolling clays toward the foot of the chalk hills, and began to brush through short cuttings of blue gault and \"green sand,\" so called by geologists, because its usual colours are bright brown, snow-white, and crimson.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of stiff, blue clay, sometimes used for making bricks."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "clay",
          "clay"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Gault Clay"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "type of stiff, blue clay",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cleidir"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "type of stiff, blue clay",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cleifarl"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "type of stiff, blue clay",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "marl"
    }
  ],
  "word": "gault"
}