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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Vault :: Vault (n.) A leap or bound.
Carnary :: Carnary (n.) A vault or crypt in connection with a church, used as a repository for human bones disintered from their original burial places; a charnel house..
Pendentive :: Pendentive (n.) The part of a groined vault which is supported by, and springs from, one pier or corbel..
Vault :: Vault (n.) The bound or leap of a horse; a curvet.
Triforium :: Triforium (n.) The gallery or open space between the vaulting and the roof of the aisles of a church, often forming a rich arcade in the interior of the church, above the nave arches and below the clearstory windows..
Vaut :: Vaut (n.) A vault; a leap.
Alveated :: Alveated (a.) Formed or vaulted like a beehive.
Groined :: Groined (a.) Built with groins; as, a groined ceiling; a groined vault..
Corona :: Corona (n.) A crown or circlet suspended from the roof or vaulting of churches, to hold tapers lighted on solemn occasions. It is sometimes formed of double or triple circlets, arranged pyramidically. Called also corona lucis..
Azure :: Azure (n.) The blue vault above; the unclouded sky.
Vaulter :: Vaulter (n.) One who vaults; a leaper; a tumbler.
Vaultage :: Vaultage (n.) Vaulted work; also, a vaulted place; an arched cellar..
Galea :: Galea (n.) A genus of fossil echini, having a vaulted, helmet-shaped shell..
Vault :: Vault (n.) A leap by aid of the hands, or of a pole, springboard, or the like..
Abutment :: Abutment (n.) The solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut..
Vaulted :: Vaulted (a.) Arched; concave; as, a vaulted roof..
Vaut :: Vaut (v. i.) To vault; to leap.
Cameration :: Cameration (n.) A vaulting or arching over.
Demivolt :: Demivolt (n.) A half vault; one of the seven artificial motions of a horse, in which he raises his fore legs in a particular manner..
Ridge :: Ridge (n.) The intersection of two surface forming a salient angle, especially the angle at the top between the opposite slopes or sides of a roof or a vault..
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