vaulting

plural vaultings

1. countableuncountableThe practice of constructing vaults, or a particular method of such construction.
2. countableuncountableA vaulted structure; such structures treated as a group.

   Spreading over the high vaultings and walls, the traditional scenes from the life of Christ are depicted on an immense scale.

   1928, Robert Byron, “The Beauty of Wealth”, in The Station: Athos: Treasures and Men, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC, page 242

3. countableuncountableThe sport of gymnastics and dance routines performed on horseback, and on the longe line.

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of vault

comparative more vaulting · superlative most vaulting

1. Leaning upward or over.
2. figurativelyExaggerated or overreaching.

   Vaulting ambition.

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   On Long Bets […] there is an open bet between the British astrophysicist Martin Rees, a noted worrier over apocalyptic possibilities, and Harvard University’s Steven Pinker, famous for his vaulting optimism.

   2021 May 29, Ross Douthat, “Why the Lab Leak Theory Matters”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

3. Performing.