Definition of vault

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Vault (n.) A leap by aid of the hands, or of a pole, springboard, or the like..

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Crypt :: Crypt (n.) A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory..
Pendentive :: Pendentive (n.) The part of a groined vault which is supported by, and springs from, one pier or corbel..
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..
Tracer/y :: Tracer/y (n.) A similar decoration in some styles of vaulting, the ribs of the vault giving off the minor bars of which the tracery is composed..
Concave :: Concave (a.) Hollow and curved or rounded; vaulted; -- said of the interior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surface of an eggshell, in opposition to convex; as, a concave mirror; the concave arch of the sky..
Vaulted :: Vaulted (a.) Covered with an arch, or vault..
Vaulty :: Vaulty (a.) Arched; concave.
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..
Sky :: Sky (n.) The apparent arch, or vault, of heaven, which in a clear day is of a blue color; the heavens; the firmament; -- sometimes in the plural..
Vault :: Vault (n.) A leap or bound.
Concave :: Concave (n.) A hollow; an arched vault; a cavity; a recess.
Springer :: Springer (n.) The rib of a groined vault, as being the solid abutment for each section of vaulting..
Vaulting :: Vaulting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vaul.
Imbow :: Imbow (v. t.) To make like a bow; to curve; to arch; to vault; to embow.
Cradle :: Cradle (n.) The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.
Vaulted :: Vaulted (imp. & p. p.) of Vaul.
Vault :: Vault (n.) To leap; to bound; to jump; to spring.
Vauty :: Vauty (a.) Vaulted.
Voltigeur :: Voltigeur (n.) A tumbler; a leaper or vaulter.
Testudinated :: Testudinated (a.) Resembling a tortoise shell in appearance or structure; roofed; arched; vaulted.
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