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noun. An arched structure, usually of masonry or concrete, serving to cover a space.

noun. An arched overhead covering, such as the sky, that resembles the architectural structure in form.

noun. A room or space, such as a cellar or storeroom, with arched walls and ceiling, especially when underground.

noun. A room or compartment, often built of steel, for the safekeeping of valuables.

noun. A burial chamber, especially when underground.

noun. An arched part of the body, especially the top part of the skull.

transitive verb. To construct or supply with an arched ceiling; cover with a vault.

transitive verb. To build or make in the shape of a vault; arch.

intransitive verb. To jump or leap over, especially with the aid of a support such as the hands or a pole.

intransitive verb. To jump or leap, especially with the use of the hands or a pole.

intransitive verb. To accomplish something suddenly or vigorously.

noun. The act of vaulting; a jump.

noun. A piece of gymnastic equipment with an upholstered body used especially for vaulting.

noun. In crinoids, same as disk, 5 .

noun. Same as a cloistered (or cloister) vault.

noun. A leap or spring.

To leap; bound; spring, especially by having something to rest the hands on, as in mounting a horse or clearing a fence.

To exhibit equestrian or other feats of tumbling or leaping.

In the manège, to curvet.

To leap over; especially, to leap over by aid of the hands or a pole: as, to vault a fence.

To form with a vault or arched roof; give the shape or character of an arch or a vault to; arch: as, to vault a passage to a court.

To cover with or as with an arch or vault.

noun. An arched roof; a concave roof or roof-like covering; the canopy of heaven.

noun. In architecture, a continuous arch, or an arched roof, so constructed that the stones, bricks, or other materials of which it is composed mutually sustain themselves in their places upon their abutments, and that their joints radiate from some central point or line (or points or lines).

noun. An arched apartment or compartment; also, a chamber or compartment, even if not arched or vaulted; especially, a subterranean chamber used for certain specific purposes.

noun. A place of confinement; a prison.

noun. A place for storing articles; a cellar: as, wine-vaults; the name is hence frequently given, in the plural, to a place where beer and wine are sold, whether subterranean or not.

noun. A privy.

noun. In anatomy, a part forming a dome-like roof to a cavity

intransitive verb. To leap; to bound; to jump; to spring.

intransitive verb. To exhibit feats of tumbling or leaping; to tumble.

transitive verb. To form with a vault, or to cover with a vault; to give the shape of an arch to; to arch.

transitive verb. To leap over; esp., to leap over by aid of the hands or a pole.

noun. An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy.

noun. An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, used for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the like; a cell; a cellar.

noun. The canopy of heaven; the sky.

noun. A leap or bound.

noun. The bound or leap of a horse; a curvet.

noun. A leap by aid of the hands, or of a pole, springboard, or the like.

noun. a kind of vault having two parallel abutments, and the same section or profile at all points. It may be rampant, as over a staircase (see Rampant vault, under Rampant), or curved in plan, as around the apse of a church.

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noun. See under 1st Cove, v. t.

noun. a vault having groins, that is, one in which different cylindrical surfaces intersect one another, as distinguished from a barrel, or wagon, vault.

noun. See under Rampant.

noun. a vault differing from others in having solid ribs which bear the weight of the vaulted surface. True Gothic vaults are of this character.

noun. a partly glazed plate inserted in a pavement or ceiling to admit light to a vault below.

noun. An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy.

"* And please be advised your doomsday seed vault is functioning perfectly."

annular vault  back of a vault  cell  cloistered vault  counter vault  

cloister vault  compound vault  cross vault  decapartite vault  dodecapartite vault  

bound  jump  jumping  leap  spring  

Perrault  Renault  Walt  assault  basalt  

aisle  arch  canopy  cavern  ceil  

Caelus  Fort Knox  Highland fling  air  anabasis  

vaulted  vaulting  vaults