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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Groined :: Groined (a.) Built with groins; as, a groined ceiling; a groined vault..
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..
Vaulter :: Vaulter (n.) One who vaults; a leaper; a tumbler.
Scaphocephaly :: Scaphocephaly (n.) A deformed condition of the skull, in which the vault is narrow, elongated, and more or less boat-shaped..
Vaultage :: Vaultage (n.) Vaulted work; also, a vaulted place; an arched cellar..
Vault :: Vault (n.) The canopy of heaven; the sky.
Vault :: Vault (n.) To leap; to bound; to jump; to spring.
Groin :: Groin (n.) The surface formed by two such vaults.
Summer :: Summer (n.) A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault. (c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree..
Vaulted :: Vaulted (imp. & p. p.) of Vaul.
Vaulty :: Vaulty (a.) Arched; concave.
Concamerate :: Concamerate (v. t.) To arch over; to vault.
Vault :: Vault (n.) A leap by aid of the hands, or of a pole, springboard, or the like..
Echometry :: Echometry (n.) The art of constructing vaults to produce echoes.
Springer :: Springer (n.) The rib of a groined vault, as being the solid abutment for each section of vaulting..
Vault :: Vault (v. i.) To leap over; esp., to leap over by aid of the hands or a pole; as, to vault a fence..
Camerate :: Camerate (v. i.) To build in the form of a vault; to arch over.
Imbowment :: Imbowment (n.) act of imbowing; an arch; a vault.
Vaulted :: Vaulted (a.) Arched; concave; as, a vaulted roof..
Cross-vaulting :: Cross-vaulting (n.) Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults.
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