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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..

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..

Safe :: Safe (n.) A strong and fireproof receptacle (as a movable chest of steel, etc., or a closet or vault of brickwork) for containing money, valuable papers, or the like..

Vault :: Vault (n.) The bound or leap of a horse; a curvet.

Cell :: Cell (n.) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.

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..

Lock :: Lock (v. t.) To fasten in or out, or to make secure by means of, or as with, locks; to confine, or to shut in or out -- often with up; as, to lock one's self in a room; to lock up the prisoners; to lock up one's silver; to lock intruders out of the house; to lock money into a vault; to lock a child in one's arms; to lock a secret in one's breast..

Vaulted :: Vaulted (a.) Covered with 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..

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..

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..

Cradle :: Cradle (n.) The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.

Bivaulted :: Bivaulted (a.) Having two vaults or arches.

Groin :: Groin (n.) The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults, growing more obtuse as it approaches the summit..

Vault :: Vault (n.) The canopy of heaven; the sky.

Pendentive :: Pendentive (n.) The part of a groined vault which is supported by, and springs from, one pier or corbel..

Roof :: Roof (n.) The cover of any building, including the roofing (see Roofing) and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon the walls or other uprights. In the case of a building with vaulted ceilings protected by an outer roof, some writers call the vault the roof, and the outer protection the roof mask. It is better, however, to consider the vault as the ceiling only, in cases where it has farther covering..

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..

Drift :: Drift (n.) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.

Concave :: Concave (n.) A hollow; an arched vault; a cavity; a recess.

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