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vaulting

nounC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #12,774 of 15,258leans written

Vaulting is the arched stonework forming a roof. Fan vaulting, the vaulting above, ribbed vaulting.

The ribs carry the load down to the columns, which is what let medieval builders replace walls with windows. Fan vaulting is an English speciality, and King's College Chapel in Cambridge has the largest anywhere.

Romanceor · CC BY-SA 3.0

Definitions of vaulting

  1. 1nounvaultingThe arched stonework forming a roof.C2

    “Visitors stared up at the beautiful stone vaulting of the cathedral roof.”

vaulting is a structure.

Where it comes from

  1. Latin

    volūta

  2. Vulgar Latin

    *volta

  3. Old French

    volte

  4. Middle English

    vaute

  5. English

    vault

  6. English, today

    vaulting

Built from

  • volute · Latin — spire
  • volvere · Latin — roll, turn

vault comes from Middle English vaute, vowte, from Old French volte (modern voûte), from Vulgar Latin volta < volvita or volŭta, a regularization of Latin volūta (compare modern volute (“spire”)), the past participle of volvere (“roll, turn”). Cognate with Spanish vuelta (“turn”) and Portuguese volta ("turn"). a doublet of volute. Displaced native Old English hwealf.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

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vaulting in the wild

  • The vault is an artistic gymnastics maneuver typically performed on a pommel horse or a vaulting table.

    Vault (gymnastics)

  • The pommel horse, also known as vaulting horse, or hobble horse is an artistic gymnastics apparatus.

    Pommel horse

  • A similar apparatus designed for physical education lessons is called a vaulting buck.

    Pommel horse

  • The equestrian events at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp included eventing, show jumping, vaulting and dressage.

    Equestrian events at the 1920 Summer Olympics

  • Data can also be sent electronically via a remote backup service, which is known as electronic vaulting or e-vaulting.

    Off-site data protection

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the volte family

vault

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