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vaut

/vɔːt/

vaut noun: a vault; a leap.

Noun

vaut (plural vauts)

  1. (obsolete) A vault; a leap.
    • Lyke an huge cave hewne out of rocky clifte,
      From whose rough vaut the ragged breaches hong1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Verb

vaut (third-person singular simple present vauts, present participle vauting, simple past and past participle vauted)

  1. (obsolete) To vault; to leap.
    • Like to thicke clouds that threat a stormy showre ,
      And vauted all within like to the skye1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of vaut

Noun
pluralvauts
Verb
third-person singular presentvauts
present participlevauting
past participlevauted
pastvauted

Words that rhyme with vaut

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Questions about vaut

What does vaut mean?
Vaut means a vault; a leap.
What part of speech is vaut?
Vaut can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce vaut?
Vaut is pronounced /vɔːt/.
What is the plural of vaut?
The plural of vaut is vauts.

Words near vaut in the dictionary

  1. vauriens
  2. vaus
  3. Vause
  4. Vauseman
  5. Vauses
  6. vaut
  7. vauted
  8. vauting
  9. vauts
  10. vauty
  11. Vaux

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