gaut

plural gauts

1. alternativeAlternative form of ghaut (“ghat, mountain pass”).

   […] gauts, or passes, from which we should not be able to extricate ourselves without considerable loss, or the danger of starving in them.

   1807, Asiatick Researches, Or, Transactions of the Society, page 99

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   the only passages [...] are by narrow gauts or ravines. It is not a valley, properly so called, but consists of a number of very low hills or rather swells, […]

   1829, The Edinburgh new philosophical journal, volumes 13-14, page 117

   He advised me to examine the gauts which divide the two countries; for the mountains being very high and the ascent over them exceedingly difficult, he apprehended they might prove impassable for our cattle.

   1930, Early European Travellers in the Nagpur Territories, page 104

plural Gauts

1. A surname.