vaultingn.1
/ˈvɔːltɪŋ/ 1.
a. The construction of a vault or vaults; the operation of covering or roofing with a vault.
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1512 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 608 Herry Semerk shall haue duryng the tyme of the said vawtyng the vse of certeyn stuffes and necessaryes.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Vaultyng or makyng a worke wyth vaultes or vault fascion, concameratio.
1596 J. Harington New Disc. Aiax sig. E8v Then thus it is, He alloweth the vaulting or arching ouer of the iakes.
1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. (at cited word) A vaulting or making of an arch roofe.
1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 101 The fourth for the Vaulting of Sellars or any other Offices.
1845 J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 4) I. 396 Domical..vaulting over a circular area was likewise practised by the Romans.
1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 465/2 Their introduction..caused an entire change in the system of vaulting.
b. The development of a vaulted space.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [noun] > concavity > development of concave space
vaulting1897
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 150 When the abscess comes into relation with the costal walls, more or less vaulting, with widening and effacement of the intercostal spaces, will be manifest.
2. figurative and in extended use.1827 R. Pollok Course of Time II. x. 230 Behind the azure vaulting of the sky.1851 E. B. Browning Casa Guidi Windows i. xxvi. 70 His soul had barred The vaulting of his life.in extended use.1836 W. Buckland Geol. & Mineral. I. xv. 356 The shell..is fortified by a series of ribs and vaultings disposed in the form of arches and domes.
a. The work or structure forming a vault.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [noun] > vaulting
voisoura1400
vousing1412
embowing1430
cope1484
vaulting1513
embow1548
embowment1626
concameration1644
cameration1664
vaulture1692
coving1703
1513 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 613 The seid John Wastell shall make and sett vpp..the vawtyng of ij porches.
1770 H. Brooke Fool of Quality V. xvii. 166 A silver sconce that hung from the vaulting.
1790 T. Pennant Of London (1793) 65 The vaulting of this was not finished till 1296.
1811 J. Milner Eccl. Archit. Eng. Pref. p. xvi The gorgeous vaulting of King's College.
1849 E. A. Freeman Hist. Archit. 401 This produces in the vaulting of St. James an effect something like a wooden roof.
1898 T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin ix. iv The vaulting (supported partly on low columns..and partly on the basement wall of the church) is therefore of unusual extent.
b. With a and plural: A species, example, or piece of such work.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [noun] > vaulting > specific example
vaulting1750
1750 C. Wren Parentalia 290 The Romans used hemispherical Vaultings.
1797 S. Lysons Acct. Rom. Antiq. Woodchester 17 It is probable that part of the roof was formed by diagonal vaultings, resting on the four columns.
1823 W. Buckland Reliq. Diluvianæ 5 The natural vaultings that compose this subterraneous wonder.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2694/1 Vaultings, or arched roofs, are supported by ribs or groins, often intersecting each other.
Compounds
General attributive, as vaulting field, vaulting pier, vaulting pillar, vaulting rib, vaulting-span, vaulting shaft, vaulting-surface.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [noun] > vaulting > rib
ogive1290
rib1608
branch1793
vaulting rib1830
nook-rib1835
surface rib1835
transom-rib1835
wall-rib1835
lierne1842
cross-rib1858
formeret1872
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [noun] > vaulting > pier or beam
vault beam1611
vaulting pier1830
vaulting pillar1830
vaulting shaft1830
vault pier1905
1830 W. Whewell Archit. Notes German Churches 21 The vaulting pillars are half columns from the floor.
1830 W. Whewell Archit. Notes German Churches 44 The principal, or vaulting piers in the Romanesque style were often engaged columns.
1830 W. Whewell Archit. Notes German Churches 45 In sexpartite vaulting they supply vaulting shafts smaller and less important than the principal piers.
1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. viii. 99 (note) The entire development of this cross system in connection with the vaulting ribs.
a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) II. 176 In either case..the error has to be thrown into the vaulting-surfaces.
1880 Archaeologia Cantiana 13 20 The Repton crypt, with its narrow vaulting-spans.
1886 G. B. Brown Schola to Cathedral iv. 159 Eight triangular vaulting fields corresponding to the eight sides of the drum from which it rises.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
vaultingn.2
/ˈvɔːltɪŋ/ 1. The action of leaping with a vault, esp. as a gymnastic exercise.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun]
leapingc1000
loupingc1440
loping1483
springing?1530
vaulting1531
saltion1541
jumping1565
exultation1599
bounding1607
exilition1646
saltation1646
salture1656
saliency1664
salitiona1682
upleaping1867
jumpery1882
society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > mounting a horse > without use of stirrup
vaulting1531
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > [noun] > actions or positions
vaulting1531
cross-step1728
still-vaulting1854
roll1858
trampolining1867
planche1878
handstand1890
rollover1891
trapezing1894
press1901
straddle1905
kip1909
upstart1909
headstand1915
round-off1917
neck-roll1920
undergrip1920
pike1928
swivel hips1943
thigh lift1949
overswing1955
shoulder stand1956
stand1956
floor exercise1957
squat1959
turnaround1959
salto1972
Tsukahara1972
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xvii. sig. Jivv There is also a ryght good exercise..whiche is named the vautynge [printed vauntynge] of a horse: that is to lepe on him at euery side without stiroppe or other helpe, specially whiles the horse is goynge.
1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca Desultura, lyghtynge vp and downe, vautynge of an horse.
1553 T. Wilson Arte Rhetorique (1580) 13 I maie commende hym for playing at weapons,..for vautyng, for plaiyng vpon Instrumentes.
1627 G. Hakewill Apologie iv. vi. 339 These forraine exercises of vauting and dauncing the Moriske.
1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 211 Ralpho was mounted now, and gotten O'erthwart his Beast with active vauting.
1700 J. Wallis in C. R. L. Fletcher Collectanea (1885) I. 318 Vaulting, leaping, and the like, are now much disused, as too violent for this softer age.
1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports 443/2 By vaulting a man can easily clear his own height, and often considerably more.
2. vaulting horse:† a. A horse mounted by vaulting, esp. one used for the exercise of leaping into the saddle without the help of a stirrup. Obsolete.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > for riding > mounted by vaulting
vaulting horse1565
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Desultorij equi, vaultyng horses that light souldiours vsed in warre.
1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor iii. iii. sig. Kiv I'ld spend twentie pound my vauting Horse stood here now. View more context for this quotation
1623 H. Hexham Tongue-combat Ep. Ded. 3 His Puppet..ouer whom hee insults, as vpon a vaulting-horse lowe enough for his leape.
1631 B. Jonson New Inne i. iii. 74 Instead of backing the braue Steed, o' mornings, To mount the Chambermaid; and for a leape O'the vaulting horse, to ply the vaulting house.
b. Gymnastics. A wooden figure of a horse employed for exercise in vaulting.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > [noun] > equipment
plummet?1537
springboard?1780
horse1785
trampoline1798
club1815
gallows1817
Indian club1825
rope1825
horizontal bar1827
trapeze1830
vaulting bar1839
parallel bars1850
wooden horse1854
trapezium1856
giant stride1863
ring1869
vaulting horse1875
mast1880
fly-pole1884
pommel1887
Roman ring1894
mat1903
wall bar1903
pommel horse1908
buck1932
pommel vault1932
landing mat1941
rebounder1980
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2694/1 Vaulting horse, a wooden horse in a gymnasium, for practice in vaulting.
1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 127/1 All kinds of Gymnastic Apparatus,..including..Vaulting Horses, Vaulting Bucks, Vaulting Tables.
1898 Daily News 23 Mar. 6/2 The squad representing the School of Arms gave a very neat exhibition of vaulting-horse work.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > brothel
houseOE
bordelc1300
whorehousec1330
stew1362
bordel housec1384
stewc1384
stivec1386
stew-house1436
bordelryc1450
brothel house1486
shop?1515
bains1541
common house1545
bawdy-house1552
hothouse1556
bordello1581
brothela1591
trugging house1591
trugging place1591
nunnery1593
vaulting-house1596
leaping house1598
Pickt-hatch1598
garden house1606
vaulting-school1606
flesh-shambles1608
whore-sty1621
bagnioa1640
public house1640
harlot-house1641
warrena1649
academy1650
call house1680
coney burrow1691
case1699
nanny-house1699
house of ill reputea1726
smuggling-ken1725
kip1766
Corinth1785
disorderly house1809
flash-house1816
dress house1823
nanny-shop1825
house of tolerance1842
whore shop1843
drum1846
introducing house1846
khazi1846
fast house1848
harlotry1849
maison de tolérance1852
knocking-shop1860
lupanar1864
assignation house1870
parlour house1871
hook shop1889
sporting house1894
meat house1896
massage parlour1906
case house1912
massage establishment1921
moll-shop1923
camp1925
notch house1926
creep joint1928
slaughterhouse1928
maison de convenance1930
cat-house1931
Bovril1936
maison close1939
joy-house1940
rib joint1940
gaff1947
maison de passe1960
rap parlour1973
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > brothel > door of brothel
vaulting-door1596
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(b)a1640 P. Massinger Parl. of Love (1976) iv. iii. 60 Noe more talkinge, Deere keeper of the vaultinge dore, lead on.1596 T. Lodge Wits Miserie sig. I iiij Let him but looke into a vawting house, he shall play his tricks without charges.
1606 T. Dekker Seuen Deadly Sinnes London iv. sig. F1 Letchery is patron of al your Suburb Colledges, and sets vp Vaulting-houses, and Daunsing-Schooles.
1639 P. Massinger Unnaturall Combat i. i. sig. B2v Let me but receive My pay that is behinde, to set me up A taverne, or a vaulting house; while men love Or drunkennesse, or lechery, they'l nere fayle me.
a. = sense 3.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > brothel
houseOE
bordelc1300
whorehousec1330
stew1362
bordel housec1384
stewc1384
stivec1386
stew-house1436
bordelryc1450
brothel house1486
shop?1515
bains1541
common house1545
bawdy-house1552
hothouse1556
bordello1581
brothela1591
trugging house1591
trugging place1591
nunnery1593
vaulting-house1596
leaping house1598
Pickt-hatch1598
garden house1606
vaulting-school1606
flesh-shambles1608
whore-sty1621
bagnioa1640
public house1640
harlot-house1641
warrena1649
academy1650
call house1680
coney burrow1691
case1699
nanny-house1699
house of ill reputea1726
smuggling-ken1725
kip1766
Corinth1785
disorderly house1809
flash-house1816
dress house1823
nanny-shop1825
house of tolerance1842
whore shop1843
drum1846
introducing house1846
khazi1846
fast house1848
harlotry1849
maison de tolérance1852
knocking-shop1860
lupanar1864
assignation house1870
parlour house1871
hook shop1889
sporting house1894
meat house1896
massage parlour1906
case house1912
massage establishment1921
moll-shop1923
camp1925
notch house1926
creep joint1928
slaughterhouse1928
maison de convenance1930
cat-house1931
Bovril1936
maison close1939
joy-house1940
rib joint1940
gaff1947
maison de passe1960
rap parlour1973
1606 H. Parrot Mous-trap xciii. sig. F Vnto a Garden-house, or vaulting-schoole.
1637 T. Nabbes Microcosmus ii Ayre was my father, and my mother a light-heel'd madame that kept a vaulting-schoole at the signe of Virgo.
1672 W. Wycherley Love in Wood iv. v Must my lodging be your vaulting-school still? Thou hast appointed a wench to come hither, I find.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Vaulting-School, a Bawdy-house. [Hence in later slang Dicts.]
b. (See quot. 1699 at sense 4a.) Obsolete.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > [noun] > gymnasium
palaestrac1425
gymnase1598
gymnasium1598
gimnasse1652
gymnade1677
ephebeum1697
vaulting-school1699
gym1871
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Vaulting-School, an Academy where Vaulting, and other Manly Exercises are Taught.
5. attributive in various uses, as vaulting bar, vaulting buck, vaulting-master, vaulting motion.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > [noun] > gymnast > teacher
gymnastic1572
gymnasticer1574
paedotribe1594
vaulting-master1641
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > [noun] > equipment
plummet?1537
springboard?1780
horse1785
trampoline1798
club1815
gallows1817
Indian club1825
rope1825
horizontal bar1827
trapeze1830
vaulting bar1839
parallel bars1850
wooden horse1854
trapezium1856
giant stride1863
ring1869
vaulting horse1875
mast1880
fly-pole1884
pommel1887
Roman ring1894
mat1903
wall bar1903
pommel horse1908
buck1932
pommel vault1932
landing mat1941
rebounder1980
1641 W. Stokes (title) The vaulting master; or, the art of vaulting reduced to a method.
1700 J. Wallis in C. R. L. Fletcher Collectanea (1885) I. 317 Mr. Bosely (then a dancing-master and vaulting-master here).
1771 M. Lort in J. Granger Lett. (1805) 194 He [sc. William Stokes] was a noted vaulting-master and rope-dancer.
1839 ‘Craven’ Walker's Manly Exercises (ed. 6) 48 This exercise is conveniently practised on the vaulting bar, which rests upon two or three posts.
1849 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) II. 643/2 Exercises [in vaulting] are performed with vaulting bars.
?1870 F. Hardy & J. R. Ware Mod. Hoyle , Chess 40 The Knight is the only piece that possesses what is styled the ‘vaulting motion’.
1884 [see sense 2b]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
vaultingadj.
/ˈvɔːltɪŋ/ a. That vaults or leaps.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [adjective]
leaping?a1400
jumping1567
saltant1601
vaultinga1616
salient1646
saltitant1654
springing1658
boundinga1667
saltating1852
upleaping1867
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. vii. 27 Vaulting Ambition, which ore-leapes it selfe, And falles on th'other. View more context for this quotation
a1637 B. Jonson Sad Shepherd ii. i. 13 in Wks. (1640) III All-be' he know her, As doth the vauting hart, his venting hind. View more context for this quotation
1847 H. Miller First Impressions Eng. xiii. 240 Such always is the vaulting liberty of a false theology.
1868 I. Saxon Five Years Golden Gate 52 So wild are the speculations, and so vaulting is the ambition of the majority of business men.
1887 R. L. Stevenson Misadv. J. Nicholson i. 3 It could not come, without vaulting hyperbole, under the rubric of a gilded saloon.
b. vaulting monkey n. (see quots.).
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the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > family Cercopithecidae > genus Cercopithecus > miscellaneous types of
vaulting monkey1800
1800 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. I. i. 51 Vaulting Monkey, Simia Petaurista.
1871 Cassell's Nat. Hist. I. 109 The White~nosed Monkey (Ceropithecus petaurista)... Some call it the Vaulting Monkey.
Derivatives
ˈvaultingly adv.
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > aspiration or ambition > [adverb]
ambitiouslyc1450
vaultingly1890
big1903
1890 Temple Bar Jan. 147 The Niobe was vaultingly ambitious.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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