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Vault

noun

A burial chamber (usually underground). Synonym: burial vault.

A strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables. Synonym: bank vault.

An arched brick or stone ceiling or roof.

The act of jumping over an obstacle. Synonym: hurdle.

verb

(past & past part. vaulted; pres. part. vaulting)

Jump across or leap over (an obstacle). Synonym: overleap.

Bound vigorously.

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... to the word Frank ran with his machine, then gave a vault into the saddle, started the engine, and with a loud popping the motor-cycle began to hustle along the road at a moderately ...

— The Outdoor Chums - The First Tour of the Rod, Gun and Camera Club • Captain Quincy Allen

... a globe suspended by a Syracusan's skill in an enclosed bronze [frame, or sphere—or perhaps, in enclosed air], a small image of the immense vault [of heaven]; and the earth is equally distant from the top and bottom; that is brought about by its [i. e., the outer bronze globe's] round form. The form of the temple ...

— On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices, and the Compass • Derek J. de Solla Price

... summoned the maitre d'hotel and two other servants, and led the way—accompanied by Larry and me—down a steep flight of stone steps to a vault beneath the house. Opening the door of what was supposed to be a wine cellar, he showed us a stand of twenty muskets, with pistols and pikes, several casks of powder and cases of bullets. Larry, at once fastening a belt round his waist, and tucking ...

— Paddy Finn • W. H. G. Kingston

... a sharp curve; a low parapet at the end of the walk formed a sort of terrace. This vault of shade opened on a valley of light. The country expanded wide before us, for several leagues. The sun was rising in the heavens, where the silvery rays of morning had become transformed into a stream of gold; blinding floods of light ran from the horizon, along the ...

— International Short Stories: French • Various

... at length to a forest whose trees were greater, grander, and more beautiful than any we had yet seen. Their live pillars upheaved a thick embowed roof, betwixt whose leaves and blossoms hardly a sunbeam filtered. Into the rafters of this aerial vault the children climbed, and through them went scrambling and leaping in a land of bloom, shouting to the unseen elephants below, and hearing them trumpet their replies. The conversations between them Lona understood while I but guessed at them blunderingly. The Little Ones chased the squirrels, and ...

— Lilith • George MacDonald

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