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Handwell vs Vault - What's the difference?

handwell | vault |

As nouns the difference between handwell and vault

is that handwell is (canada) a small manhole while vault is an arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy or vault can be an act of vaulting; a leap or jump.

As a verb vault is

to build as, or cover with a vault or vault can be (ambitransitive) to jump or leap over.

handwell

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Canada) A small manhole.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=January 31, author=Nick Aveling, title=School kids 'zapped' by sidewalk electricity, work=Toronto Star citation
    • , passage="This is not a unique handwell in a unique area – it's just like all others. }}
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 3, author=Emily Mathieu, title=Repairs underway to metal lids that jolted dogs, kids, work=Toronto Star citation
    • , passage=Last Thursday five students, aged 10 and 11, from Regent Park/Duke of York Junior Public School, were zapped by a handwell on Dundas St. E. near Sumach St., said Toronto District School Board spokesperson John Caldarone. }}

    vault

    English

    (wikipedia vault)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) volte (modern .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy.
  • * Gray
    • the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault
  • A structure resembling a vault, especially (poetic) that formed by the sky.
  • * Shakespeare
    • that heaven's vault should crack
  • * 1985', God said, ‘Let there be a ' vault through the middle of the waters to divide the waters in two.’ — Genesis 1:6 (New Jerusalem Bible)
  • A secure, enclosed area, especially an underground room used for burial, or to store valuables, wine etc.
    • The bank kept their money safe in a large vault .
    Family members had been buried in the vault for centuries.
  • * Sandys
    • the silent vaults of death
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • to banish rats that haunt our vault
    Derived terms
    * barrel vault * cloister vault * compound vault * cross vault * decapartite vault * dodecapartite vault * domical vault * groin vault * oblique vault * octopartite vault * panel vault * polygonal vault * quadripartite vault * quinquepartite vault * ribbed vault * segmental vault * septempartite vault * sexpartite vault * star vault * stilted vault * tripartite vault * Welsh vault

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To build as, or cover with a vault.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • The shady arch that vaulted the broad green alley.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) frequentative form of (etyl) volvere; later assimilated to Etymology 1, above.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (ambitransitive) To jump or leap over.
    • The fugitive vaulted over the fence to escape.
    Derived terms
    * vaulter * vaulting

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of vaulting; a leap or jump.
  • (gymnastics) An event in gymanstics performed on a vaulting horse.

    • See also

    * pole vault * vaulting horse