vaulted

4 definitions found

vaulted - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.]
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     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.
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              The shady arch that vaulted the broad green alley.
                                                    --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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     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.
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              I will vault credit, and affect high pleasures.
                                                    --Webster
                                                    (1623).
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  Vaulted \Vault"ed\, a.
     1. Arched; concave; as, a vaulted roof.
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     2. Covered with an arch, or vault.
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     3. (Bot.) Arched like the roof of the mouth, as the upper lip
        of many ringent flowers.
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vaulted - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  vaulted
      adj 1: having a hemispherical vault or dome [syn: domed,
             vaulted]

vaulted - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  18 Moby Thesaurus words for "vaulted":
     arched, arciform, arclike, arcual, bandy, bowed, bowlike, concave,
     convex, embowed, gibbose, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, humpy,
     hunched, hunchy, oxbow