Vault

Pronunciation: vạlt; see Note, below

(Arch.) An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy.

- Gray.

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

The silent vaults of death.

- Sandys.

To banish rats that haunt our vault.

- Swift.

The canopy of heaven; the sky.

That heaven's vault should crack.

- Shak.

(Man.) A leap or bound.

Barrel vault
(Arch.) 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.

Coved vault
(Arch.) See under 1st Cove, v. t.

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

Rampant vault
(Arch.) See under Rampant.

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

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

v. t.

[imp. & p. p. Vaulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Vaulting.]

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

The shady arch that vaulted the broad green alley.

- Sir W. Scott.

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

I will vault credit, and affect high pleasures.

- Webster (1623).

v. i.

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

Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself.

- Shak.

Leaning on his lance, he vaulted on a tree.

- Dryden.

Lucan vaulted upon Pegasus with all the heat and intrepidity of youth.

- Addison.

To exhibit feats of tumbling or leaping; to tumble.

Noun	1.	vault - a burial chamber (usually underground) Synonyms: burial vault
	2.	vault - a strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables Synonyms: bank vault
	3.	vault - an arched brick or stone ceiling or roof
	4.	vault - the act of jumping over an obstacle Synonyms: hurdle
Verb	1.	vault - jump across or leap over (an obstacle) Synonyms: overleap
	2.	vault - bound vigorously

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