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Bilbo :: Bilbo (n.) A long bar or bolt of iron with sliding shackles, and a lock at the end, to confine the feet of prisoners or offenders, esp. on board of ships..

Screw :: Screw (n.) Specifically, a kind of nail with a spiral thread and a head with a nick to receive the end of the screw-driver. Screws are much used to hold together pieces of wood or to fasten something; -- called also wood screws, and screw nails. See also Screw bolt, below..

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

Setbolt :: Setbolt (n.) An iron pin, or bolt, for fitting planks closely together..

Birdbolt :: Birdbolt (n.) Anything which smites without penetrating.

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..

Thimble :: Thimble (n.) A tubular piece, generally a strut, through which a bolt or pin passes..

Strip :: Strip (v. i.) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8..

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..

Sprigged :: Sprig (n.) A small eyebolt ragged or barbed at the point.

Gate :: Gate (n.) In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into..

Meal :: Meal (n.) Grain (esp. maize, rye, or oats) that is coarsely ground and unbolted; also, a kind of flour made from beans, pease, etc.; sometimes, any flour, esp. if coarse..

Drivebolt :: Drivebolt (n.) A drift; a tool for setting bolts home.

Reeve :: Reeve (v. t.) To pass, as the end of a pope, through any hole in a block, thimble, cleat, ringbolt, cringle, or the like..

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..

Bolting :: Bolting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bol.

Thunderbolt :: Thunderbolt (n.) A belemnite, or thunderstone..

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

Bolty :: Bolty (n.) An edible fish of the Nile (genus Chromis).

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