4 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Vault \Vault\ (v[add]lt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vaulted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Vaulting}.] [OE. vouten, OF. volter, vouter, F. vo[^u]ter. See {Vault} an arch.] [1913 Webster] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] The shady arch that vaulted the broad green alley. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] I will vault credit, and affect high pleasures. --Webster (1623). [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Vaulted \Vault"ed\, a. 1. Arched; concave; as, a vaulted roof. [1913 Webster] 2. Covered with an arch, or vault. [1913 Webster] 3. (Bot.) Arched like the roof of the mouth, as the upper lip of many ringent flowers. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: vaulted adj : having a hemispherical vault or dome [syn: {domed}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 18 Moby Thesaurus words for "vaulted": arched, arciform, arclike, arcual, bandy, bowed, bowlike, concave, convex, embowed, gibbose, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, humpy, hunched, hunchy, oxbow
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