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Wrain-bolt :: Wrain-bolt (n.) Same as Wringbolt.

Boltsprit :: Boltsprit (n.) See Bowsprit.

String :: String (n.) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it..

Bolt :: Bolt (adv.) In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly.

Bolt :: Bolt (v. t.) 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..

Lug :: Lug (n.) A projecting piece to which anything, as a rod, is attached, or against which anything, as a wedge or key, bears, or through which a bolt passes, etc..

Drawbolt :: Drawbolt (n.) A coupling pin. See under Coupling.

Pumpernickel :: Pumpernickel (n.) A sort of bread, made of unbolted rye, which forms the chief food of the Westphalian peasants. It is acid but nourishing..

Bolthead :: Bolthead (n.) A long, straight-necked, glass vessel for chemical distillations; -- called also a matrass or receiver..

Bolt :: Bolt (n.) A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards..

Breeching :: Breeching (n.) A strong rope rove through the cascabel of a cannon and secured to ringbolts in the ship's side, to limit the recoil of the gun when it is discharged..

Fasten :: Fasten (a.) To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window..

Countersink :: Countersink (n.) An enlargement of the upper part of a hole, forming a cavity or depression for receiving the head of a screw or bolt..

Strip :: Strip (v. t.) To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped..

Lock :: Lock (n.) Anything that fastens; specifically, a fastening, as for a door, a lid, a trunk, a drawer, and the like, in which a bolt is moved by a key so as to hold or to release the thing fastened..

Controller :: Controller (n.) An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged..

Clinch :: Clinch (n.) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts..

Tubbing :: Tubbing (n.) A lining of timber or metal around the shaft of a mine; especially, a series of cast-iron cylinders bolted together, used to enable those who sink a shaft to penetrate quicksand, water, etc., with safety..

Bolt :: Bolt (v. i.) To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.

Fastening :: Fastening (n.) Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc..

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