1 a room with thick walls and a strong door, especially in a bank, used for keeping valuable things safe:
Most of her jewellery is stored in bank vaults.
2 a room under a church or in a CEMETERY, used for burying people:
She is to be buried in the family vault.
3 a roof or ceiling in the form of an arch or a series of arches
4 a jump made by vaulting
seealsoPOLEVAULT
Part of speech: verb
~ (over) sth to jump over an object in a single movement, using your hands or a pole to push you:
[V] She vaulted over the gate and ran up the path. * [VN] There's no way he could have vaulted the fence with that injury.
seealsoPOLEVAULT
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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