What is "faulted"

Usage examples of "faulted".

He listened harder and realized the thunder was not from the sky but low-planed along the streets, where sled axles humped the faulted paving, bounding off stone buildings, cueing windowpanes into quick vibration, echoing in closed alleyways, dying somewhere out there in the heat, distantly, leaving him with the tag ends of thoughts, the selvage of raveled dreams.

The ancient granite had faulted on lines that were steplike, and as they had both intuited, the climb was an easy one.

Those who had set and activated the ambuscade were not soldiers but hit-and-run banditti, so they could not have been faulted for breaking and running immediately they saw their leaders hacked by sabers and broadswords, lifted writhing from their saddles on dripping lance-points or hurled to death amid the stamping hooves by blow of ax or mace.

Damn all this wretched summer, its storms, its ill humors, its frustrations and its angers: in any better season no one would have faulted him hiring Kekoja to serve as his runner.

Elen knew herself to be a skilled infighter, especially for someone her size, and that her knowledge of the Elector’s court and the emissaries sent there from the other Fringe Cities, as well as the dangers they represented, could not be faulted.

The lowest form of wit notwithstanding, it's difficult to restrain an impulse toward sarcasm at a suggestion that people in terror, beset by earthquakes, hurricanes, totally enveloping darkness, and torrents of meteorites should be faulted for losing track of time and failing to check with their sundials and water clocks.