Definitions for the word "vault" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, use for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the like; a cell; a cellar.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
The canopy of heaven; the sky.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
A leap or bound.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
The bound or leap of a horse; a curvet.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
A leap by aid of the hands, or of a pole, springboard, or the like.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. i.
To leap over; esp., to leap over by aid of the hands or a pole; as, to vault a fence.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
To leap; to bound; to jump; to spring.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
To exhibit feats of tumbling or leaping; to tumble.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. n.
1 arched roof. 2 vaultlike covering (vault of heaven). 3 underground storage chamber or place of interment beneath a church or in a cemetery etc. 4 act of vaulting. v. 1 leap, esp. Using the hands or a pole. 2 spring over in this way. 3 (esp. As vaulted) a make in the form of a vault. B provide with a vault or vaults. [latin volvo roll]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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