(vaults, vaulting, vaulted)
1.
A vault is a secure room where money and other valuable things can be kept safely.
Most of the money was in storage in bank vaults...
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2.
A vault is a room underneath a church or in a cemetery where people are buried, usually the members of a single family.
He ordered that Matilda's body should be buried in the family vault.
= tomb
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3.
A vault is an arched roof or ceiling.
...the vault of a great cathedral.
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4.
If you vault something or vault over it, you jump quickly onto or over it, especially by putting a hand on top of it to help you balance while you jump.
He could easily vault the wall...
Ned vaulted over a fallen tree...
VERB: V n, V prep