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Definition of Barrel vault

Barrel vault
4. A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged. --Knight. 5. A jar. [Obs.] --1 Kings xvii. 12. 6. (Zo["o]l.) The hollow basal part of a feather. Barrel bulk (Com.), a measure equal to five cubic feet, used in estimating capacity, as of a vessel for freight. Barrel drain (Arch.), a drain in the form of a cylindrical tube. Barrel of a boiler, the cylindrical part of a boiler, containing the flues. Barrel of the ear (Anat.), the tympanum, or tympanic cavity. Barrel organ, an instrument for producing music by the action of a revolving cylinder. Barrel vault. See under Vault.

Meaning of Barrel vault from wikipedia

- A barrel vault, also known as a tunnel vault, wagon vault or wagonhead vault, is an architectural element formed by the extrusion of a single curve (or...
- vault or groined vault (also sometimes known as a double barrel vault or cross vault) is produced by the intersection at right angles of two barrel vaults...
- Etruscans. The Romans in particular developed vault construction further and built barrel, cross and dome vaults. Some outstanding examples have survived in...
- panels. Rib vaults are, like groin vaults, formed from two or three intersecting barrel vaults; the ribs conceal the junction of the vaults. The earliest...
- by its m****ive quality, thick walls, round arches, s****y pillars, barrel vaults, large towers and decorative arcading. Each building has clearly defined...
- architecture as vaults. Annular vault – A Barrel vault springing from two concentric walls. Barrel vault – An architecture tunnel vault or barrel vault is a semicircular...
- flattened barrel vault springing from a course that encircles the walls at the level of the springing of the window arches. This barrel vault is cut transversely...
- barrel vaults that cross at right angles to each other: the open space within the vault is the intersection of the space within the two barrel vaults...
- interesting example at Pompeii; this was covered with a semicircular barrel vault, decorated with reliefs in stucco, and round the room a series of square...
- point at the viewer's eye level, so that, as Vasari describes it "a barrel vault drawn in perspective, and divided into squares with rosettes that diminish...