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VAULT, n. [L. vultus; a derivative of L. volvo, volutus.]

1. A continued arch, or an arched roof. Vaults are of various kinds, circular, elliptical, single, double, cross, diagonal, Gothic, &c.

2. A cellar.

To banish rats that haunt our vault.

3. A cave or cavern.

The silent vaults of death, unknown to light.

4. A repository for the dead.

5. In the manege, the leap or a horse.

VAULT, v.t. To arch; to form with a vault; or to cover with a vault; as, to vault a passage to a court.

VAULT, v.i.

1. To leap; to bound; to jump; to spring.

Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself -

Leaning on his lance, he vaulted on a tree.

Lucan vaulted upon Pegasus with all the heat and intrepidity of youth.

2. To tumble; to exhibit feats of tumbling or leaping.
1913 Definition
Vault (vault)
n.(v&add]lt; see Note, below)
Vault
[OE. voute, OF. voute, volte, F. voûte, LL. volta, for voluta, volutio, fr. L. volvere, volutum, to roll, to turn about. See Voluble, and cf. Vault a leap, Volt
  1. An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy.

    The long-drawn aisle and fretted vault. Gray.

  2. An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, use for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the like; a cell; a cellar.
    "Charnel vaults." Milton.

    The silent vaults of death. Sandys.

    To banish rats that haunt our vault. Swift.

  3. The canopy of heaven; the sky.

    That heaven's vault should crack. Shak.

  4. A leap or bound.
    Specifically: -- (a) (Man.)
  5. To form with a vault, or to cover with a vault; to give the shape of an arch to; to arch; as, vault a roof; to vault a passage to a court.

    The shady arch that vaulted the broad green alley. Sir W. Scott.

  6. To leap over; esp., to leap over by aid of the hands or a pole; as, to vault a fence.

    I will vault credit, and affect high pleasures. Webster (1623).

  7. To leap; to bound; to jump; to spring.

    Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself. Shak.

    Leaning on his lance, he vaulted on a tree. Dryden.

    Lucan vaulted upon Pegasus with all the heat and intrepidity of youth. Addison.

  8. To exhibit feats of tumbling or leaping; to tumble.
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