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Vault


VAULT, noun [Latin vultus; a derivative of Latin volvo, volutus.]

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

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, verb transitive To arch; to form with a vault; or to cover with a vault; as, to vault a passage to a court.

VAULT, verb intransitive

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.