Vault

Vault - Other Definitions

• (n.) An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy.
  
  
• (n.) An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, use for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the like; a cell; a cellar.
  
  
• (n.) The canopy of heaven; the sky.
  
  
• (n.) A leap or bound.
  
  
• (n.) The bound or leap of a horse; a curvet.
  
  
• (n.) A leap by aid of the hands, or of a pole, springboard, or the like.
  
  
• (v. t.) 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.
  
  
• (v. i.) To leap over; esp., to leap over by aid of the hands or a pole; as, to vault a fence.
  
  
• (n.) To leap; to bound; to jump; to spring.
  
  
• (n.) To exhibit feats of tumbling or leaping; to tumble.
  
  
• (imp. & p. p.) of Vault
  
  
• (a.) Arched; concave; as, a vaulted roof.
  
  
• (a.) Covered with an arch, or vault.
  
  
• (a.) Arched like the roof of the mouth, as the upper lip of many ringent flowers.