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Bolt   /boʊlt/   Listen
noun
Bolt  n.  
1.
A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart. "Look that the crossbowmen lack not bolts." "A fool's bolt is soon shot."
2.
Lightning; a thunderbolt.
3.
A strong pin, of iron or other material, used to fasten or hold something in place, often having a head at one end and screw thread cut upon the other end.
4.
A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key.
5.
An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter. (Obs.) "Away with him to prison! lay bolts enough upon him."
6.
A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards.
7.
A bundle, as of oziers.
Bolt auger, an auger of large size; an auger to make holes for the bolts used by shipwrights.
Bolt and nut, a metallic pin with a head formed upon one end, and a movable piece (the nut) screwed upon a thread cut upon the other end. Note: See Tap bolt, Screw bolt, and Stud bolt.


Bolt  n.  
1.
A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt.
2.
A sudden flight, as to escape creditors. "This gentleman was so hopelessly involved that he contemplated a bolt to America or anywhere."
3.
(U. S. Politics) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.


Bolt  n.  A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.


verb
Bolt  v. t.  (past & past part. bolted; pres. part. bolting)  
1.
To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.
2.
To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out. "I hate when Vice can bolt her arguments."
3.
To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food; often used with down.
4.
(U. S. Politics) To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part.
5.
(Sporting) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc.
6.
To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain. "Let tenfold iron bolt my door." "Which shackles accidents and bolts up change."


Bolt  v. t.  (past & past part. bolted; pres. part. bolting)  
1.
To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means. "He now had bolted all the flour." "Ill schooled in bolted language."
2.
To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; with out. "Time and nature will bolt out the truth of things."
3.
(Law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
To bolt to the bran, to examine thoroughly, so as to separate or discover everything important. "This bolts the matter fairly to the bran." "The report of the committee was examined and sifted and bolted to the bran."


Bolt  v. i.  
1.
To start forth like a bolt or arrow; to spring abruptly; to come or go suddenly; to dart; as, to bolt out of the room. "This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt,... And oft out of a bush doth bolt."
2.
To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt. "His cloudless thunder bolted on their heads."
3.
To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as, the horse bolted.
4.
(U.S. Politics) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or a caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.


adverb
Bolt  adv.  In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly. "(He) came bolt up against the heavy dragoon."
Bolt upright.
(a)
Perfectly upright; perpendicular; straight up; unbendingly erect.
(b)
On the back at full length. (Obs.)





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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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