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noun

Vaulting n.

The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction.

Act of one who vaults or leaps.

verb

Vault v. t. (past & past part. vaulted; pres. part. vaulting)

To form with a vault, or to cover with a vault; to give the shape of an arch to; to arch; as, to vault a roof; to vault a passage to a court. "The shady arch that vaulted the broad green alley."

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."

Vault v. i.

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."

To exhibit feats of tumbling or leaping; to tumble.

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Etymology of 'Vaulting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Vaulting" Quotes from Famous Books

... . No. I have not read the Jami Diwan; partly because I find my Eyes are none the better, and partly because I have now no one to 'prick the sides of my Intent'; not even 'Vaulting Ambition' now. I have got the Seven Castles {348} in my Box here and old Johnson's Dictionary; and these I shall strike a little Fire out of by and by: Jami also in time perhaps. I have nearly finisht a metrical Paraphrase and Epitome of the Mantic: but you would ...

— Letters of Edward FitzGerald - in two volumes, Vol. 1 • Edward FitzGerald

... earlier work, expert opinion places them at the same Transitional Norman date. The crypt has a nave, apse and aisles, and is therefore a complete little underground church. Semi-circular arches between the pillars support the plain vaulting only a few feet above one's head, and the darkness is such that it requires a little time to be able to see the foliage and interlaced arches of the capitals surmounting the ...

— The Evolution Of An English Town • Gordon Home

... chances often in his after life; but only when the taking of chances might further the attainment of some cherished end—and, always thereafter, he practiced pole-vaulting. ...

— The Son of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... one hundred fathoms in diameter. Around it were seventy-two chapels of an octagonal shape. To every pair of chapels there was a tower six stories high, approachable by a winding stair on the outside. In the center stood a tower twice as big as the others, which rested on arches. The vaulting was of blue sapphire, and in the center was a plate of emerald, with the lamb and the banner of the cross in enamel. All the altar stones were of sapphire, as symbols of the propitiation of sins. Upon the inside of ...

— Legends of the Middle Ages - Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art • H.A. Guerber

... adoption into the Republican party," he assured Jefferson, "seems to have superior pretentions." It was an excellent appointment from every point of view but one. Monroe had overlooked—and the circumstance did him infinite credit—the exigencies of politics and passed over an individual whose vaulting ambition had already made him an aspirant to the Presidency. Henry Clay was grievously disappointed and henceforward sulked in his tent, refusing the Secretaryship of War which the President tendered. Eventually the brilliant young John C. Calhoun took this post. This South Carolinian was in ...

— Jefferson and his Colleagues - A Chronicle of the Virginia Dynasty, Volume 15 In The - Chronicles Of America Series • Allen Johnson

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