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Adjective: vaulting  vol-ting or vól-ting
  1. Revealing excessive self-confidence; reaching for the heights
    "vaulting ambition";
    - overreaching
Noun: vaulting  vol-ting or vól-ting
  1. (architecture) a vaulted structure
    "arches and vaulting"
     
  2. A light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down
    - curvet, courbette
Verb: vault  volt or vólt
  1. Jump across or leap over (an obstacle)
    - overleap
     
  2. Bound vigorously

Derived forms: vaultings

See also: bold

Type of: bound, construction, dressage, jump, leap, spring, structure

Encyclopedia: Vaulting

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