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vauting

vauting is the present participle and gerund of vaut.

Meaning of vaut

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

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Questions about vauting

What is vauting the present participle and gerund of?
Vauting is the present participle and gerund of vaut.

Words near vauting in the dictionary

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

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