3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vault \Vault\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vaulted}; p. pr & vb n.
{Vaulting}.] [OE. vouten OF volter, vouter, F. vo[^u]ter.
See {Vault} an arch.]
1. 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.
2. [See {Vault}, v. i.] 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).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vaulted \Vault"ed\, a.
1. Arched; concave; as a vaulted roof.
2. Covered with an arch, or vault.
3. (Bot.) Arched like the roof of the mouth, as the upper lip
of many ringent flowers.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
vaulted
adj : having a hemispherical vault or dome [syn: {domed}]
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