1. To leap; to bound; to jump; to spring. Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself. Shak. Leaning on his lance, he vaulted on a tree. Dryden. Lucan vaulted upon Pegasus with all the heat and intrepidity of youth. Addison.
2. To exhibit feats of tumbling or leaping; to tumble.
VAULTAGE
Vault"age, n.
Defn: Vaulted work; also, a vaulted place; an arched cellar. [Obs.]
Shak.
VAULTED
Vault"ed, a.
1. Arched; concave; as, a vaulted roof.
2. Covered with an arch, or vault.
3. (Bot.)
Defn: Arched like the roof of the mouth, as the upper lip of many ringent flowers.
VAULTER
Vault"er, n.