vaut

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /vɔːt/
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NounEdit

vaut (plural vauts)

(obsolete) A vault; a leap.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 2, canto 7:
  Lyke an huge cave hewne out of rocky clifte,
  From whose rough vaut the ragged breaches hong

VerbEdit

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

(obsolete) To vault; to leap.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 3, canto 4:
  Like to thicke clouds that threat a stormy showre ,
  And vauted all within like to the skye

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for vaut in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)