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Cleat :: Cleat (n.) A device made of wood or metal, having two arms, around which turns may be taken with a line or rope so as to hold securely and yet be readily released. It is bolted by the middle to a deck or mast, etc., or it may be lashed to a rope..

Iron-sick :: Iron-sick (a.) Having the ironwork loose or corroded; -- said of a ship when her bolts and nails are so eaten with rust that she has become leaky.

Rivet :: Rivet (n.) A metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together, by passing it through them and then beating or pressing down the point so that it shall spread out and form a second head; a pin or bolt headed or clinched at both ends..

Headrope :: Headrope (n.) That part of a boltrope which is sewed to the upper edge or head of a sail.

Range :: Range (v.) A bolting sieve to sift meal.

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

Cropper :: Cropper (n.) A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth..

Thunderbolt :: Thunderbolt (n.) Something resembling lightning in suddenness and effectiveness.

Buolt :: Buolt (n.) Corrupted form Bolt.

Bultel :: Bultel (n.) A bolter or bolting cloth; also, bran..

Setbolt :: Setbolt (n.) A bolt used for forcing another bolt out of its hole.

Pin :: Pin (n.) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal..

Mainpin :: Mainpin (n.) A kingbolt.

Thunderbolt :: Thunderbolt (n.) Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination..

Flour :: Flour (n.) The finely ground meal of wheat, or of any other grain; especially, the finer part of meal separated by bolting; hence, the fine and soft powder of any substance; as, flour of emery; flour of mustard..

Bolt :: Bolt (v. t.) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law..

Deadlatch :: Deadlatch (n.) A kind of latch whose bolt may be so locked by a detent that it can not be opened from the inside by the handle, or from the outside by the latch key..

Bit :: Bit (v.) The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.

Bolting :: Bolting (n.) A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court..

Nut :: Nut (n.) A perforated block (usually a small piece of metal), provided with an internal or female screw thread, used on a bolt, or screw, for tightening or holding something, or for transmitting motion. See Illust. of lst Bolt..

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