Definition of vault

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Vault (n.) An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, use for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the like; a cell; a cellar..

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Burial :: Burial (n.) The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment..
Imbowment :: Imbowment (n.) act of imbowing; an arch; a vault.
Vault :: Vault (n.) The bound or leap of a horse; a curvet.
Alveated :: Alveated (a.) Formed or vaulted like a beehive.
Tomb :: Tomb (n.) A house or vault, formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof, for the reception of the dead..
Vault :: Vault (n.) An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, use for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the like; a cell; a cellar..
Vaulting :: Vaulting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vaul.
Vaulter :: Vaulter (n.) One who vaults; a leaper; a tumbler.
Vault :: Vault (n.) To leap; to bound; to jump; to spring.
Cesspool :: Cesspool (n.) A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptacle of filth..
Leap :: Leap (v. i.) To spring clear of the ground, with the feet; to jump; to vault; as, a man leaps over a fence, or leaps upon a horse..
Fornicated :: Fornicated (a.) Vaulted like an oven or furnace; arched.
Coffer :: Coffer (n.) A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson..
Center :: Center (n.) A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting.
Cross-vaulting :: Cross-vaulting (n.) Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults.
Groin :: Groin (n.) The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults, growing more obtuse as it approaches the summit..
Vaut :: Vaut (v. i.) To vault; to leap.
Vaultage :: Vaultage (n.) Vaulted work; also, a vaulted place; an arched cellar..
Fornix :: Fornix (n.) An arch or fold; as, the fornix, or vault, of the cranium; the fornix, or reflection, of the conjuctiva..
Drift :: Drift (n.) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
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