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Bolt   /boʊlt/   Listen
Bolt

noun
1.
A discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder.  Synonyms: bolt of lightning, thunderbolt.
2.
A sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech.
3.
The part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key.  Synonym: deadbolt.
4.
The act of moving with great haste.  Synonym: dash.
5.
A roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length.
6.
A screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener.
7.
A sudden abandonment (as from a political party).
verb
(past & past part. bolted; pres. part. bolting)
1.
Move or jump suddenly.
2.
Secure or lock with a bolt.
3.
Swallow hastily.
4.
Run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along.  Synonyms: abscond, absquatulate, decamp, go off, make off, run off.  "The accountant absconded with the cash from the safe"
5.
Leave suddenly and as if in a hurry.  Synonyms: beetle off, bolt out, run off, run out.  "When she started to tell silly stories, I ran out"
6.
Eat hastily without proper chewing.  Synonym: gobble.
7.
Make or roll into bolts.
adverb
1.
In a rigid manner.  Synonyms: rigidly, stiffly.  "He sat bolt upright"
2.
Directly.  Synonyms: bang, slap, slapdash, smack.  "Ran slap into her"



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"Bolt" Quotes from Famous Books



... swaggering along its pavements. Bread Street would resound to us with the tread of young Milton, and Southwark with the echoes of Shakespeare's voice and the jolly laughter of the Pilgrims at the Tabard. Hogarth would accompany us about Covent Garden, and out of Bolt Court we should see the lumbering figure of Johnson emerging into his beloved Fleet Street. We would sit by the fountain in the Temple with Tom Pinch, and take a wherry to Westminster with Mr. Pepys. We should see London then as a great spiritual companionship, in which it is ...
— Pebbles on the Shore • Alpha of the Plough (Alfred George Gardiner)

... Aldborough and at other watering-places, but the door resisted her; the door was distrustfully bolted on the inside. After making that discovery, she went round to the back of the house, and ascertained that the door on that side was secured in the same manner. "Bolt your doors, Mr. Bygrave, as fast as you like," said the housekeeper, stealing back again to the Parade. "You can't bolt the entrance to your servant's pocket. The best lock you have may be opened by a ...
— No Name • Wilkie Collins

... talents, qualities, were made the subject of blame and scandal— in a word, he was run down by public opinion. But the leaders of the cabal were not the less struck by the news of my success, which sounded in their ears like the falling of a thunder-bolt. The silly princess de Guemenee, who, with her husband, has since become a bankrupt to so enormous and scandalous an amount, flew without delay to convey the tidings of my victory to the duchesse de Grammont, to whom it was a death-blow. ...
— "Written by Herself" • Baron Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon

... Do you think he tumbled? Not a bit—not a bit. He sat there gasping like a fish, and Mrs. Dowager Diamonds, surprised by my sudden attack, stood bolt upright, about as pleasant to hug as—as you are, ...
— In the Bishop's Carriage • Miriam Michelson

... folks treat them well, as sometimes doesn't happen. I've seen hogs here"—Tom was a little Saxon in his figures, but their nature will prove their justification—"I've seen hogs about here, bolt right in before old Madam Littlepage, and draw their chairs up to her fire, and squirt about the tobacco, and never think of even taking off their hats. Them folks be always huffy about their own importance, though they never think ...
— The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. - Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts • James Fenimore Cooper


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