Hypertext Webster Gateway: "vaulting"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Vaulting \Vault"ing\, n.
1. The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction.
2. Act of one who vaults or leaps.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
vaulting
adj : revealing excessive self-confidence; reaching for the
heights; "vaulting ambition" [syn: {overreaching}]
n 1: (architecture) a vaulted structure; "arches and vaulting"
2: a light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the
ground before the forelegs come down [syn: {curvet}]
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