vaut

Meanings

nounvaut (plural vauts)

obsoleteA vault; a leap.
Lyke an huge cave hewne out of rocky clifte, From whose rough vaut the ragged breaches hong
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

verbvaut (third-person singular simple present vauts, present participle vauting, simple past and past participle vauted)

present singular third person vauts · participle present vauting · participle past vauted · past vauted

obsoleteTo vault; to leap.
Like to thicke clouds that threat a stormy showre , And vauted all within like to the skye
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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