vaulting

About 0.46 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The practice of constructing vaults, or a particular method of such construction.
2. noun A vaulted structure; such structures treated as a group.
3. noun The sport of gymnastics and dance routines performed on horseback, and on the longe line.
4. verb present participle and gerund of vault
5. adjective Leaning upward or over.
6. adjective Exaggerated or overreaching.

   Vaulting ambition.

7. adjective Performing.

Similar words

bold overreaching curvet concameration lierne arch tracery quadripartite sexpartite cross vault

Often followed by

of ambition and is in over shafts was the

Word family

vaultingly vaultings