Definitions for vaultings

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vaultings vault·ing

Spelling: [vawl-ting]

IPA: /ˈvɔl tɪŋ/

Vaultings is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 522 anagrams from letters in vaultings (agilnstuv).

Definitions for vaultings

noun

1. the act or process of constructing vaults.
2. the structure forming a vault.
3. a vault, vaulted ceiling, etc., or such structures collectively.
4. an arched structure, usually made of stones, concrete, or bricks, forming a ceiling or roof over a hall, room, sewer, or other wholly or partially enclosed construction.
5. an arched structure resembling a vault.
6. a space, chamber, or passage enclosed by a vault or vaultlike structure, especially one located underground.
7. an underground chamber, as a cellar or a division of a cellar.
8. a room or compartment, often built of or lined with steel, reserved for the storage and safekeeping of valuables, especially such a place in a bank.
9. a strong metal cabinet, usually fireproof and burglarproof, for the storage and safekeeping of valuables, important papers, etc.
10. a burial chamber.
11. Anatomy. an arched roof of a cavity.
12. something likened to an arched roof:
13. the act of vaulting.
14. a leap of a horse; curvet.
15. Gymnastics. a running jump over a vaulting horse or pommel horse, usually finishing with an acrobatic dismount.

adjective

1. leaping up or over.
2. used in vaulting:
3. excessive in ambition or presumption; overweening; high-flown:

verb (used with object)

1. to construct or cover with a vault.
2. to make in the form of a vault; arch.
3. to extend or stretch over in the manner of an arch; overarch:
4. to store in a vault:
5. to leap over:
6. to cause to leap over or surpass others:

verb (used without object)

1. to curve or bend in the form of a vault.
2. to leap or spring, as to or from a position or over something:
3. to leap with the hands supported by something, as by a horizontal pole.
4. Gymnastics. to leap over a vaulting horse or pommel horse, using the hands for pushing off.
5. to arrive at or achieve something as if by a spring or leap:

Origin of vaultings

First recorded in 1505-15; vault¹ + -ing¹

Examples for vaultings

The film is going to be a huge critical and commercial hit, vaulting Stoller into the upper echelon of Hollywood comedy directors.

It presents no indications of pendentives or of a start in vaulting.

The walls rose on all sides to the point where the vaulting would have begun.

vaulting their bodies, I gained the circular staircase that ascended to the tower.

Jumping and vaulting and climbing ropes and drilling in squads—what?

The clerestory windows are partly concealed by the vaulting.

When vaulting is required, the procedure should be as follows.

Both at the bottom and at the top above the vaulting they should have airholes.

It seems probable also that the vaulting may not be what was contemplated in the original plan.

They were rushing here and there across the lawn and vaulting the fence.