Vault \Vault\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vaulted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Vaulting.]
[OE. vouten, OF. volter, vouter, F. vo[^u]ter.
See Vault an arch.]
1. To form with a vault, or to cover with a vault; to give
the shape of an arch to; to arch; as, vault a roof; to
vault a passage to a court.
The shady arch that vaulted the broad green alley.
--Sir W.
Scott.
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.
I will vault credit, and affect high pleasures.
--Webster
(1623).
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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