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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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..
Vault :: Vault (n.) The canopy of heaven; the sky.
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..
Concameration :: Concameration (n.) An arch or vault.
Testudinated :: Testudinated (a.) Resembling a tortoise shell in appearance or structure; roofed; arched; vaulted.
Vault :: Vault (n.) A leap or bound.
Lunette :: Lunette (n.) Any surface of semicircular or segmental form; especially, the piece of wall between the curves of a vault and its springing line..
Echometry :: Echometry (n.) The art of constructing vaults to produce echoes.
Supercelestial :: Supercelestial (a.) Situated above the firmament, or great vault of heaven..
Cameration :: Cameration (n.) A vaulting or arching over.
Cradle :: Cradle (n.) The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.
Groin :: Groin (n.) The surface formed by two such vaults.
Scaphocephaly :: Scaphocephaly (n.) A deformed condition of the skull, in which the vault is narrow, elongated, and more or less boat-shaped..
Alveated :: Alveated (a.) Formed or vaulted like a beehive.
Concave :: Concave (n.) A hollow; an arched vault; a cavity; a recess.
Bay :: Bay (n.) A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers..
Fornicated :: Fornicated (a.) Vaulted like an oven or furnace; arched.
Vault :: Vault (n.) The bound or leap of a horse; a curvet.
Bivaulted :: Bivaulted (a.) Having two vaults or arches.
Drift :: Drift (n.) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
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