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Cross-springer :: Cross-springer (n.) One of the ribs in a groined arch, springing from the corners in a diagonal direction. [See Illustr. of Groined vault.].

Cameration :: Cameration (n.) A vaulting or arching over.

Formeret :: Formeret (n.) One of the half ribs against the walls in a ceiling vaulted with ribs.

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..

Vaulted :: Vaulted (a.) Arched; concave; as, a vaulted roof..

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

Vaultage :: Vaultage (n.) Vaulted work; also, a vaulted place; an arched cellar..

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

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..

Vaulted :: Vaulted (a.) Covered with an arch, or vault..

Groined :: Groined (a.) Built with groins; as, a groined ceiling; a groined vault..

Abutment :: Abutment (n.) The solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut..

Center :: Center (n.) A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting.

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..

Vaut :: Vaut (v. i.) To vault; to leap.

Acrobatism :: Acrobatism (n.) Feats of the acrobat; daring gymnastic feats; high vaulting.

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..

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..

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.) A leap or bound.

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