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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Galea :: Galea (n.) A genus of fossil echini, having a vaulted, helmet-shaped shell..
Vaulted :: Vaulted (a.) Arched; concave; as, a vaulted roof..
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..
Alveated :: Alveated (a.) Formed or vaulted like a beehive.
Imbow :: Imbow (v. t.) To make like a bow; to curve; to arch; to vault; to embow.
Vault :: Vault (n.) An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy..
Bivaulted :: Bivaulted (a.) Having two vaults or arches.
Pendentive :: Pendentive (n.) The part of a groined vault which is supported by, and springs from, one pier or corbel..
Concamerate :: Concamerate (v. t.) To arch over; to vault.
Vault :: Vault (v. i.) To leap over; esp., to leap over by aid of the hands or a pole; as, to vault a fence..
Concameration :: Concameration (n.) An arch or vault.
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..
Testudinated :: Testudinated (a.) Resembling a tortoise shell in appearance or structure; roofed; arched; vaulted.
Coffer :: Coffer (n.) A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson..
Fornix :: Fornix (n.) An arch or fold; as, the fornix, or vault, of the cranium; the fornix, or reflection, of the conjuctiva..
Lierne Rib :: Lierne rib () In Gothic vaulting, any rib which does not spring from the impost and is not a ridge rib, but passes from one boss or intersection of the principal ribs to another..
Vaulting :: Vaulting (n.) Act of one who vaults or leaps.
Vaulting :: Vaulting (n.) The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction.
Camerate :: Camerate (v. i.) To build in the form of a vault; to arch over.
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..
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