[もくば, mokuba] (n) (1) wooden horse; rocking horse; (2) (See 跳馬) vaulting horse; horse used in gymnastics; (3) the horse (ancient torture device that one was forced to straddle with rocks hanging from the feet) [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (3 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Vault \Vault\ (v[add]lt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vaulted}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Vaulting}.] [OE. vouten, OF. volter, vouter, F.
vo[^u]ter. See {Vault} an arch.]
[1913 Webster]
1. To form with a vault, or to cover with a vault; to give
the shape of an arch to; to arch; as, to vault a roof; to
vault a passage to a court.
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The shady arch that vaulted the broad green alley.
--Sir W.
Scott.
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2. [See {Vault}, v. i.] To leap over; esp., to leap over by
aid of the hands or a pole; as, to vault a fence.
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I will vault credit, and affect high pleasures.
--Webster
(1623).
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Vaulting \Vault"ing\, n.
1. The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction.
[1913 Webster]
2. Act of one who vaults or leaps.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vaulting
adj 1: revealing excessive self-confidence; reaching for the
heights; "vaulting ambition" [syn: {overreaching},
{vaulting}]
n 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 [syn: {curvet},
{vaulting}]
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