vaut

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /vɔːt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -ɔːt

Noun

vaut (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

vaut (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

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)