Barrel, Cradle, Cylindrical, or Wagon, vault(Arch.), a kind of vault having two parallel abutments, and the same section or profile at all points. It may be rampant, as over a staircase (see Rampant vault, under Rampant), or curved in plan, as around the apse of a church.Coved vault. (Arch.) See under 1st Cove, v. t.Groined vault(Arch.), a vault having groins, that is, one in which different cylindrical surfaces intersect one another, as distinguished from a barrel, or wagon, vault.Rampant vault. (Arch.) See under Rampant.Ribbed vault(Arch.), a vault differing from others in having solid ribs which bear the weight of the vaulted surface. True Gothic vaults are of this character.Vault light, a partly glazed plate inserted in a pavement or ceiling to admit light to a vault below.

Vault
(Vault) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vaulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Vaulting.] [OE. vouten, OF. volter, vouter, F. voûter. 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

Vault
(Vault), v. i. [Cf. OF. volter, F. voltiger, It. voltre turn. See Vault, n., 4.]

1. To leap; to bound; to jump; to spring.

Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself.
Shak.

Leaning on his lance, he vaulted on a tree.
Dryden.

Lucan vaulted upon Pegasus with all the heat and intrepidity of youth.
Addison.

2. To exhibit feats of tumbling or leaping; to tumble.

The l in this word was formerly often suppressed in pronunciation.


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