vaut

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔːt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɔːt

Noun

vaut (plural vauts)

1. (obsolete) A vault; a leap.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Lyke an huge cave hewne out of rocky clifte,
     From whose rough vaut the ragged breaches hong

Verb

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

1. (obsolete) To vault; to leap.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Like to thicke clouds that threat a stormy showre ,
     And vauted all within like to the skye

References

• “vaut”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Tuva, vatu

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vo/

• Audio (Canada):

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• Homophones: vaux, veau, veaux
• Rhymes: -o

Verb

vaut

1. third-person singular present indicative of valoir

Middle English

Noun

vaut

1. Alternative form of vaute