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Jump across or leap over (an obstacle)
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vaulting
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Word definitions for vaulting in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Concrete vaulting supported the tiers of seats as in an amphitheatre and under the vaults were corridors lit by outer arcades. ▪ Inside, it is on three-aisled, rectangular plan with Medieval vaulting and walls painted all ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vaulting \Vault"ing\, n. The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction. Act of one who vaults or leaps.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 leaning upward or over 2 exaggerated or overreaching 3 performing n. 1 The practice of constructing vaults, or a particular method of such construction. 2 A vaulted structure; such structures treated as a group. 3 The sport of gymnastics and dance routines ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. revealing excessive self-confidence; reaching for the heights; "vaulting ambition" [syn: overreaching ]
Usage examples of vaulting.
The little boy had now converted his alpenstock into a vaulting pole, by the aid of which he was springing about in the gravel and kicking it up not a little.
Spurred on by their avariciousness and vaulting ambition, they had endeavored to wrest her empire away from her in the most underhanded way, seriously underestimating her in the process.
On each side of these windows, in the space between the windows and the vaulting shafts, is plain stone panelling terminating in an arch with a crocketed gable above it, ending in a finial which reaches to about the level of the spring of the window arch.
The official reception room was a decagonal chamber with a vaulting roof that dripped chandeliers.
Sean Michael jocularly replied before vaulting over the fence as easily as if he had been doing it all his life.
The room was empty, now, allowing her footsteps to echo overhead from the intricate lierne vaulting with the wavelike, sweeping ribs.
Conover, the longeur for the Flying Angels who controlled the speed of the vaulting horse.
Then Diana remained in the center of the ring with the longeur and the vaulting horse, while the other girls ran to the side of the arena.
Flying Angels followed their longeur and vaulting horse out of the building, and the Tyler High-Flyers ran in.
While the first hooded would-be assassin howled with pain and executed a ragged rigadoon on the stately carpet, Harry was vaulting a flowered divan.
So he displayed again, drumming, vaulting, and hooting, and went back to the follow-me routine.
Miss Springer knows everything about parallel bars and vaulting horses and coaching tennis.
The short connecting ribs of the vaulting form a stellated cross over the presbytery.
The simple fact was that the SaTrryn had made a fortune in their spice trade with the Rasan Sul, vaulting them to the top tier of Bashkir families.
From the rear of one great temple stretched a low black passage which Carter followed far into the rock with a torch till he came to a lightless domed hall of vast proportions, whose vaultings were covered with demoniac carvings and in whose centre yawned a foul and bottomless well like that in the hideous monastery of Leng where broods alone the High-Priest Not To Be Described.