vaut
English
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edit- IPA(key): /vɔːt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔːt
Noun
editvaut (plural vauts)
- (obsolete) A vault; a leap.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Lyke an huge cave hewne out of rocky clifte,
From whose rough vaut the ragged breaches hong
Verb
editvaut (third-person singular simple present vauts, present participle vauting, simple past and past participle vauted)
- (obsolete) To vault; to leap.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Like to thicke clouds that threat a stormy showre ,
And vauted all within like to the skye
References
edit- “vaut”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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editvaut
- alternative form of vaute
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